Katherine Vaz

Quick Facts

Full Name	Katherine Vaz
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Aug 26, 1955(1955-08-26)
Age	69
Birthplace	Castro Valley
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Capricorn

Katherine Vaz Biography

Katherine Vaz is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on August 26, 1955 in Castro Valley, California, United States. Katherine Vaz (born August 26, 1955) is an American writer. A Briggs-Copeland Fellow in Fiction at Harvard University (2003-9), a 2006-7 Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Fall, 2012 Harman Fellow at Baruch College in New York, she is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Saudade (St. Martin’s Press, 1994), the first contemporary novel about Portuguese-Americans from a major New York publisher. It was optioned by Marlee Matlin/Solo One Productions and selected in the Barnes & Nobles Discover Great New Writers series.

Her second novel, Mariana, (HarperCollins, 1997), was selected by the Library of Congress as one of the Top 30 International Books of 1998 and has been translated into six languages.

Katherine Vaz Net Worth

Katherine Vaz is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Katherine Vaz 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Vaz is a recipient of a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1993) and the Davis Humanities Institute Fellowship (1999). She has been named by the Luso-Americano as one of the Top 50 Luso-Americanos of the twentieth century and is the first Portuguese-American to have her work recorded for the Library of Congress, housed in the Hispanic Division. The Portuguese-American Women’s Association (PAWA) named her 2003 Woman of the Year. She was appointed to the six-person U.S. Presidential Delegation to open the American Pavilion at the World’s Fair/Expo 98 in Lisbon. She lives in New York City and the Springs area of East Hampton with Christopher Cerf, whom she married in July, 2015.

Vaz’s first short story collection Fado & Other Stories received the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and her second collection, Our Lady of the Artichokes, won the 2007 Prairie Schooner Book Prize.

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Facts & Trivia

Jacob Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Katherine Vaz celebrates birthday on August 26 of every year.

Top Facts about Katherine Vaz

1. Katherine Vaz is an American writer born in 1955.
2. She has published six novels and three short story collections.
3. Her work often explores themes of family, identity, and culture.
4. Vaz’s debut novel “Saudade” was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
5. She has received numerous awards for her writing, including a Guggenheim Fellowship.
6. Vaz is also a professor of creative writing at the University of California Santa Cruz.
7. Her most recent book is “The Love Life of an Assistant Animator & Other Stories.”
8. Vaz’s writing has been translated into several languages, including Portuguese and Spanish.
9. She was born in California to parents from Portugal’s Azores islands.
10. Vaz has spoken about the importance of representing diverse voices in literature.