At only 14 years old, she decided on spot that she would become a journalist. Military killed two journalists today, for telling the truth about what was going on here, Nazario recalled her saying. Nazario is at work on her second book for Random House.Ī year after moving to her mother's native Argentina from Kansas, Nazario and her mother come across a pool of blood on the sidewalk, right at the onset of the countrys Dirty War.
In fall of 2010, it was the second most - chosen book for freshman or all - campus reading at universities across the country. It has been published in eight languages and has been adopted by 54 universities and scores of high schools nationwide as their freshman reading or all - campus read. It became a National bestseller and won two book awards. In 2006, Nazario published a book, Enrique's Journey, which significantly expanded her newspaper series. The story also garnered a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for her accompanying photographer, Don Bartletti.
Kennedy Journalism Award, and National Association of Hispanic Journalists Guillermo Martinez - Marquez Award for Overall Excellence.
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In 2002, Nazario finished work on a six - part series, entitled Enrique's Journey, about the experiences of Latin American children who immigrate to join their parents in a US newspaper series won more than a dozen National Journalism awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, George Polk Award for International Reporting, Grand Prize of Robert F. Her photographer for the project, Clarence Williams, won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for photos taken to accompany the story. In 1998, Nazario was finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her story about what life was like for children of drug addicts. The following year, she won the George Polk Award for Local Reporting for a series about hunger among schoolchildren in California. In 1993, Nazario left Wall Street Journal for a second time and joined Los Angeles Times to write about social issues, including those dealing with Latinos and Latin America. * Please keep in mind that all text is machine-generated, we do not bear any responsibility, and you should always get advice from professionals before taking any actions * Please keep in mind that all text is machine-generated, we do not bear any responsibility, and you should always get advice from professionals before taking any actions. Nazario is a graduate of Williams College and has a masters degree in Latin American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
Enrique's Journey, her story of a Honduran boy struggling to find his Mother in the United States, was published as a series in Los Angeles Times and won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2003. In 2012, Columbia Journalism Review named her among 40 women who changed media business in the past 40 years. Nazario, who grew up in Kansas and Argentina, has written extensively about Latin America and about Latinos in the United States. Her work has won some of the most prestigious awards in publishing, including two Pulitzer Prizes. As a journalist, she has covered some of this country's most intractable problems, including hunger, drug addiction and immigration. Sonia Nazario is a contributing opinion writer for New York Times.