Justin Torres
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Justin Torres at Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2012
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| Born | 1980 (age 36–37) New York City |
| Occupation | Novelist, writer |
| Nationality | American, Puerto Rican |
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Justin Torres (born 1980) is an American novelist. In 2012 the National Book Foundation named him a 5 under 35 honoree.
Justin Torres was born to a father of Puerto Rican descent and a mother of Italian and Irish descent. He has a 2010-2012 Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University.
His first novel, We the Animals (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), won an Indies Choice Book Awards (Adult Debut Honor Award) and was also a Publishing Triangle Award finalist and a NAACP Image Award nominee (Outstanding Literary Work, Debut Author).
A movie version of 'We The Animals' is slated to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017.
Torres was also chosen by Salon.com as one of the sexiest men of 2011.
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