Cristina Rivera Garza
Cristina Rivera Garza was a Mexican historian, writer and novelist (born 1964). She was born at Tamaulipas.
Cristina Rivera Garza in brief
- Born
- 1964
- Known for
- historian, writer and novelist
- Place of birth
- Tamaulipas
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Career and activity
She was employed by Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, San Diego State University, University of California, San Diego and University of Houston. She worked at United States.
Recognition and collections
Cristina Rivera Garza received Anna Seghers Prize, Shirley Jackson Award for Novella, MacArthur Fellows Program, Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Premio Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso and Xavier Villaurrutia Award. Work by Cristina Rivera Garza is held by Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes.
Catalogued works
44 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 2002 to 2007.
The Taiga Syndrome. The Iliac Crest. Liliana's Invincible Summer. No One Will See Me Cry. Autobiography of Cotton. Viriditas. Untold Microcosms. Verde Shanghai / Green Shanghai. Company. Death Takes Me. Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World. Ningún Reloj Cuenta Esto / No Clock Tells You This. Trenzar. Palabras Mayores. Speech Acts. Escrituras geológicas. Turbar la Quietud. Ninguém Me Verá Chorar. Me Llamo Cuerpo Que No Está / My Name Is a Body That Is Not / Collected Poems. Frontera Más Distante. Grieving. Verde Shangai. El invencible verano de Liliana. Untitled Rivera Garza. La Dulce hiel de la seduccíon, dated 2007. New and Selected Stories. Autobiografía Del Algodón / the Autobiography of Cotton. Personne ne me verra pleurer. HABIA MUCHA NEBLINA O HUMO (MAPA DE LAS. Rigo Es Amor. Tayga Sendromu. Autobiografía del algodón. La imaginación pública. Andamos perras andamos diablas. Entre las cenizas. El mal de la taiga. Allí te comerán las turicatas. Los muertos indóciles. La Castañeda. El disco de Newton. Dolerse. México20. Había mucha neblina o humo o no sé qué. Entre médicos y curanderos : cultura, historia y enfermedad en la América Latina moderna / edición de Diego Armus., dated 2002, held by Wellcome Collection.
In public collections
Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.
Wellcome Collection: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue.
Literature
13 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.
Cristina Rivera Garza: las huellas perdidas, Kipus: Revista Andina de Letras y Estudios Culturales, 2026. Cristina Rivera Garza, 2016. Las formas de pertenencia en Autobiografía del algodón de Cristina Rivera Garza, Contar con el lenguaje. Ensayos críticos sobre la obra de Cristina Rivera Garza, 2025. Aquí, el único lugar: el lenguaje en la poesía de Cristina Rivera Garza, Contar con el lenguaje. Ensayos críticos sobre la obra de Cristina Rivera Garza, 2025. Death Takes Me, 4.2 by Cristina Rivera Garza (MOBI), 2026. Sobre Cristina Rivera-Garza, La Castañeda. Narrativas dolientes desde el Manicomio General, Historia Mexicana El Colegio de México, 2012. L’esthétique du crime chez Cristina Rivera Garza, América, 2014. Nuevas tendencias en el género neopolicial mexicano del siglo XXI, Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2017. Cristina Rivera Garza. Lo roto precede a lo entero. 125 infraensayos, Houston, Literal Publishing, 2021., Literatura Mexicana, 2025. Comunidad y comunalidad. Claves para una lectura de la narrativa documental, Acta Poética, 2017. Mito, sueño y escritura de la ambigüedad: “El hombre que siempre soñó” de Cristina Rivera Garza, Confluenze, 2019. Emprunts et métamorphoses : l’identité par l’altérité, Cahiers d’études des cultures ibériques et latino-américaines, 2019. Sensibilidades y rearticulaciones humanas y no humanas en la narrativa de Cristina Rivera Garza, Anclajes, 2020.
Digitised editions and texts
3 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.
La muerte me da (2007) — Internet Archive. Book publicity (2021) — Internet Archive. El disco de Newton: Diez ensayos sobre el color (2011) — Internet Archive.
Scholarly footprint
Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 16 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.
Evidence base
This article draws on 5 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 5 means 5 genuinely separate publishers of record. 13 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.
In detail
Cristina Rivera Garza studied at National Autonomous University of Mexico and University of Houston. the recorded working language is Spanish.
Residence is recorded at United States. Employment is recorded with Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, San Diego State University and University of California, San Diego.
Works named in the authority record are Liliana's Invincible Summer and No One Will See Me Cry.
Work by Cristina Rivera Garza is recorded in the collections of Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes.
Distinctions recorded are Anna Seghers Prize, Shirley Jackson Award for Novella, MacArthur Fellows Program and Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Chronology
- 1964Cristina Rivera Garza born at Tamaulipas.
- 2007La muerte me da digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2011El disco de Newton: Diez ensayos sobre el color digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2021Book publicity digitised by Internet Archive.
Sources
Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.
- 1.
“Cristina Rivera Garza”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q1140408: Cristina Rivera Garza
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Elsewhere in Books
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