# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cristina-garcia
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:06:39.240Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cristina-garcia"
name: "Cristina García"
slug: "cristina-garcia"
description: "Cristina García is a Cuban-born American novelist and playwright. Her first novel, Dreaming in Cuban (1992), was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has since published her novels The Agüero Sisters (1997) and Monkey Hunting (2003), and has edited books of Cuban and other Latin American literature. Her other novels include, A Handbook to Luck (2007); The Lady Matador's Hotel (2010); King of Cuba (2013); Here in Berlin (2017); and Vanishing Maps (2023)."
tagline: "American novelist and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cristina_Garc%C3%ADa.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1958-07-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.811232
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.cristinagarcianovelist.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cristina_Garc%C3%ADa"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7"
    title: "كريستينا غارسيا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89)"
    title: "كريستينا جارسيا (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina_Garc%C3%ADa_(novelist)"
    title: "Cristina García (novelist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina_Garc%C3%ADa"
    title: "Cristina García"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F%2C_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Гарсия, Кристина"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A7_%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7_(%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "کرسٹینا گارسیا (ناول نگار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cristina_Garc%C3%ADa_(journalist)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5186349"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump