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Francisco Goldman

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January 01, 1954 in Boston, Massachusetts, The United States

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Literature & Fiction

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Francisco Goldman is an American novelist, journalist, and 'maestro', at Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI), the journalism school for Latin-America created by Gabriel García Márquez. Goldman is also known as Francisco Goldman Molina, "Frank" and "Paco".

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a Guatemalan mother and Jewish-American father. His first novel, The Long Night of White Chickens (1992), won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and his second, The Ordinary Seaman (1997), was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was short-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He currently resides in Mexico City and Brooklyn...more

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Books by Francisco Goldman

Average rating: 4.12 · 365 ratings · 69 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Say Her Name: A Novel 3.59 avg rating — 748 ratings — published 2011 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? 4.07 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Long Night of White Chickens 3.68 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 1992 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Ordinary Seaman by Francisco Goldman, Francisco Golman 3.94 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Divine Husband 3.31 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Con la sangre despierta/ With the blood awake by Francisco Goldman, Juan Manuel Villalobos (Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Estebans Traum Roman 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1998	My rating:
	Estaban 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	El Arte Del Asesinato Politico: ¿quién Mató Al Obispo? 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	El Esposo Divino 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

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“I can go years thinking that it seems impossible that I will ever satisfy that appetite again and then it is easy to satisfy and no one notices or cares, nor does it make me happy, when loneliness surrounds me like water I've already drowned in without dying.”
― Francisco Goldman, The Divine Husband

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“Hold her tight, if you have her; hold her tight, I thought, that's my advice to all the living. Breathe her in, put your nose in her hair, breathe her in deeply. Say her name. It will always be her name. Not even death can steal it. Same alive as dead, always. Aura Estrada.”
― Francisco Goldman, Say Her Name: A Novel

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“Maybe memory is overrated. Maybe forgetting is better. (Show me the Proust of forgetting, and I'll read him tomorrow.) Sometimes it's like juggling a hundred thousand crystal balls in the air at once, trying to keep all these memories going. Every time one falls to the floor and shatters into dust, another crevice cracks open inside me, through which another chunk of who we were disappears forever.”
― Francisco Goldman, Say Her Name: A Novel

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