Brad King interviews Sergio Troncoso about Nobody's Pilgrims, the best advice he would give his younger self, lessons learned from Professor John Womack at Harvard, a writer's life, meeting George W. Bush at the Texas Book Festival, and a story about his childhood when he refused to work for his father because he wanted to focus on school. And the family fight that followed.
Sergio Troncoso is the author of NOBODY’S PILGRIMS, which Ben Fountain called a "superb novel," and A PECULIAR KIND OF IMMIGRANT'S SON, which Luis Alberto Urrea hailed as "a world-class collection." Troncoso has a forthcoming memoir, THE BLOOD IN THE ADOBE, in 2027. Among the numerous prizes Troncoso has won are the Kay Cattarulla Award for Best Short Story, Premio Aztlán Literary Prize, and the Gold Medal for Best Novel-Adventure or Drama from the International Latino Book Awards. He was inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame. A past president of the Texas Institute of Letters and a Fulbright scholar, Troncoso teaches at the Yale Writers’ Workshop. His stories and essays have appeared in CNN Opinion, New Letters, Other Voices, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, Michigan Quarterly Review, Texas Monthly, and Yale Review.
