Justin Torres
Justin Torres | |
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Torres at Ubud Writers Festival 2012 | |
| Born | 1980 (age 44–45) New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, writer |
| Nationality | American, Puerto Rican |
| Education | New York University The New School University of Iowa |
| Notable works | We the Animals (2011) Blackouts (2023) |
| Notable awards | First Novelist Award National Book Award for Fiction |
| Website | |
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Justin Torres (born 1980) 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. 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.