Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Finalist, 2022 National Book Awards

Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree was the silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and a New York Times editor’s choice.
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The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir

book cover for Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir
ISBN 9780385546669 Doubleday / Penguin Random House

For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and ’90s Colombia, in a house bustling with her mother’s fortune-telling clients, she was a hard child to surprise. More about this book >

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras at the 2022 National Book Awards Finalist Reading

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree was the silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and ZYZZYVA, among others. She lives in California.

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