Sergio Troncoso --- sergiotroncoso.com

Sergio Troncoso is the author of The Last Tortilla and Other Stories, which won the Premio Aztlán and the Southwest Book Award, and The Nature of Truth: A Novel, a philosophical thriller about righteousness and evil, Yale and the Holocaust.

Listen to Sergio's reading of excerpts from his novel, The Nature of Truth: Podcast (mp3 audio format; 30 minutes), and from his short story collection, The Last Tortilla and Other Stories: Podcast (mp3 audio format; 38 minutes). These podcasts are also available, free, on iTunes; just type in Sergio's name in the iTunes Music Store.

Troncoso's stories have been featured in many anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (W.W. Norton & Company), Latino Boom: An Anthology of U. S. Latino Literature (Pearson/Longman Publishing), Once Upon a Cuento (Curbstone Press), Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature (University of New Mexico Press), City Wilds: Stories and Essays about Urban Nature (University of Georgia Press), and New World: Young Latino Writers (Dell Publishing). His work has also appeared in Encyclopedia Latina, Newsday, The El Paso Times, Hadassah Magazine, Other Voices, Blue Mesa Review, and many other newspapers and magazines.

Sergio Troncoso graduated from Harvard College, and studied international relations and philosophy at Yale University. He won a Fulbright scholarship to Mexico and was inducted into the Hispanic Scholarship Fund's Alumni Hall of Fame. He is a member of PEN.

On The Last Tortilla and Other Stories:

"These stories are richly satisfying." ---Publishers Weekly

"Enthusiastically recommended." ---Booklist

"Troncoso really shines when he writes about El Paso and the life of Mexican-Americans there. He has the gift for writing from his heart outward into his reader's heart." ---Bloomsbury Review

On The Nature of Truth:

"Troncoso excels as a narrator, a storyteller, and a creator of vivid characters and images." ---Southwest Book Views

"Impressively lucid first thriller." ---The Chicago Tribune

"The Nature of Truth is a unique meditation on redemption and retribution that tackles racism, homophobia, and anti-Semitism with sensitivity and skill. Troncoso's legacy is in having expanded the social and geographical terrain of the Chicano narrative with enviable aplomb." ---The El Paso Times

"The subtlety, and fairness, with which Troncoso presents these conflicting frameworks [Nietzschean valor, Christian pragmatism, and blind inductivism] stand as the novel’s crowning intellectual achievement, side by side with the artistic one: a convincing tale of murder and ruminating guilt." ---Janus Head, a journal of Philosophy, Literature and Psychology