314 Gabriel García Márquez (with Patricia Engel)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Author Patricia Engel joins Jacke to talk about her childhood in New Jersey, her artistic family, her lifelong love of stories and writing, her new novel Infinite Country, and "The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother" by Gabriel García Márquez, a story she first read as a 14-year-old and which she returns to often. PATRICIA ENGEL is the author of Infinite Country, a Reese’s Book Club pick, Esquire Book Club pick, Indie Next pick, Amazon Best Book of the Month, and more. Her other books include The Veins of the Ocean, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year; It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris, which won the International Latino Book Award, and of Vida, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Fiction Award and the Young Lions Fiction Award; winner of a Florida Book Award, International Latino Book Award and Independent Publisher Book Award, longlisted for the Story Prize and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. For Vida, Patricia was the first woman to be awarded Colombia’s national prize in literature, the 2017 Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana. She has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Hedgebrook, and Key West Literary Seminar among others, and is the recipient of an O. Henry Award. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. New!!! Looking for an easy to way to buy Jacke a coffee? Now you can at paypal.me/jackewilson. Your generosity is much appreciated! The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature podcast is a member of the Podglomerate Network and Lit Hub radio.
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0:42.8	Hello. Patricia Engle is the author of The Vains of the Ocean, which won the Dayton Literary
0:48.8	Peace Prize, and it's not love, it's just Paris, which won the International Latino Book Award,
0:55.3	and Vida, which was a finalist for the Pan Hemingway and Young Lions Fiction Awards, The New York
1:01.1	Times Notable Book, and winner of Columbia's National Book Award, the Premio Bibliotheca de Nairativa
1:08.2	Colomiana. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment
1:14.2	for the Arts. Her stories have appeared in the best American short stories, the best American
1:19.9	mystery stories, the Ohenri Prize stories, and elsewhere. She is, says the San Francisco Chronicle,
1:27.8	a unique and necessary voice for the Americas. Lisa Co says Patricia Engle is a stunning writer
1:35.4	with astonishing talents, and The New York Times says she has uncanny insight into the human condition.
1:43.4	She is also our guest today, here to talk about her new novel, Infinite Country, and a Gabrielle
1:49.8	Garcia Marquez's story that she read when she was 14, in which she thinks about often.
1:56.2	Patricia Engle, today on The History of Literature.
2:17.0	Okay, here we go. Hello, everyone. Let's go straight at them in our best
2:21.4	Patrick O'Brien, Patrick O'Brienian Way, Patricia Engle, all that praise, and all those
2:28.7	prizes incredible. Sometimes I feel like the future is in good hands, and the past is in good
2:36.4	hands too. Can we say that? Is that possible when we're talking about an author? Like
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