Pulitzer Special: Hernan Diaz and Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Today on the program, a special Pulitzer Prize episode featuring authors Hernan Diaz and Ingrid Rojas Contreras. Diaz won a 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his bestselling novel Trust, and Contreras was a National Book Award finalist and a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist for her memoir The Man Who Could Move Clouds. In the episode, you'll hear outtakes from Episode 775, my conversation with Hernan (air date: June 1, 2022); and my conversation with Ingrid in Episode 785 (air date: August 10, 2022). You'll also hear my recent conversations with each of them, as we discuss the success of their respective books and the impact it has had on their lives. Hernan Diaz is the author of two novels translated into more than twenty languages. His first novel, In the Distance, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has also written a book of essays, and his work has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Playboy, The Yale Review, McSweeney's, and elsewhere. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and a fellowship from the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her debut novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree was the silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and a New York Times editor's choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and Zyzzyva, among others. She lives in California. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram YouTube TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, folks, welcome to the program. This is the Other People podcast. I'm Brad Listy here in Los Angeles, California. It is good to be with you. I hope you are doing okay wherever you happen to be. Don't forget to subscribe to this program wherever you listen. You can also subscribe on YouTube, follow the show on social media, TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter, and support the
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0:30.1	Today I've got a very special episode for you, an extravaganza, a special Pulitzer Prize episode
0:37.3	featuring authors Ernan Diaz and Ingrid Rojas
0:42.2	Contreras, both of whom were guests of mine on this show back in 2022 and both of whom
0:49.3	have gone on to receive extraordinary recognition for their respective books.
0:57.3	Ernan Diaz is now a Pulitzer Prize winner in fiction for his best-selling novel Trust.
1:05.3	And Ingrid Rojas Contreras is both a National Book Award finalist and a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds.
1:16.0	And best of all, both Ernan and Ingrid were kind enough to join me separately to talk about all of this, all that has happened, what it was like to receive this kind of recognition and to go
1:28.6	on this kind of ride with a book.
1:32.1	I talked to them about where they were when they found out.
1:35.7	I try to get all the details.
1:38.9	So first, I'm going to be sharing a conversation that I had earlier this week with Ernan
1:43.5	Diaz.
1:44.6	Once again, his best-selling novel Trust won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for
1:50.4	2023, along with Demon Copperhead, the novel by Barbara Kingsolver.
1:56.5	So it was sort of a strange year for the Pilitzer Prize for Fiction with two winners.
2:02.6	The other finalist was a novel called the Immortal King Rao by Vahini Vara.
2:08.6	In his novel trust, Ernan Diaz tells the story of the life and marriage
2:14.6	of Wall Street Tycoon Benjamin Rask and his wife Helen.
2:19.4	The Pulitzer Prize Committee calls trust, quote,
2:22.8	a riveting novel set in a bygone era that explores family, wealth, and ambition
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