Salvador Plascencia

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born

December 21, 1976 in Guadalajara, Mexico

gender

male

website

http://www.salvadorplascencia.com

genre

Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Biographies & Memoirs

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Salvador Plascencia is an American writer, born 1976 in Guadalajara, Mexico.

The Plascencia family eventually settled near Los Angeles in the city of El Monte when he was eight years old. Plascencia holds a B.A. in English from Whittier College and an MFA in fiction from Syracuse University. The recipient of a National Foundation for Advancement of the Arts Award in Fiction in 1996 and the Peter Neagoe Prize for Fiction in 2000. In 2001 he was awarded the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, its first fellow in fiction.

His first published fiction appeared in McSweeney's Issue 12. McSweeney's also published his first novel, The People of Paper, in 2005.

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Books by Salvador Plascencia

Average rating: 4.16 · 1,795 ratings · 325 reviews · 3 distinct works

	The People of Paper 4.16 avg rating — 1,785 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Composition No. 1 by Marc Saporta, Salvador Plascencia, Tom Uglow 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1963 — 2 editions	My rating:
	You Never Forget How to Ride a Bike: Lessons Learned by the Students of John Marshall High School by Students of John Marshall High School, Salvador Plascencia (Foreword by) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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Quotes by Salvador Plascencia

“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

tags: longing , love , sadness

273 people liked it

“One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

29 people liked it

“Like all stories of creators who bring life from the dead, his story began with a struggling butcher, who chased a gray cat, caught it, took off its studded collar, and slit its throat.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

tags: creation , imagination , story

6 people liked it

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