Justin Torres
American writer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1980 · age 46
Justin Torres is an American novelist and an associate professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles. He won the First Novelist Award for his semi-autobiographical debut novel We the Animals (2011), which was also an Edmund White Award finalist and an NAACP Image Award for Debut Author nominee.
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The novel has been adapted into a film of the same title and was awarded the Next Innovator Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Torres' second novel, Blackouts, won the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction.
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