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Sergio Troncoso is the author of The Last Tortilla and Other Stories, which won the Premio Aztlan and the Southwest Book Award, and The Nature of Truth: A Novel, a story about a Yale research student who discovers that his boss, a renowned professor, hides a Nazi past.

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Troncoso's stories have been featured in many anthologies, including Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing (University of Arizona Press), Latino Boom: An Anthology of U. S. Latino Literature (Pearson/Longman Publishing), Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature (University of New Mexico Press), and New World: Young Latino Writers (Dell Publishing). His work has also appeared in Newsday, The El Paso Times, Other Voices, Pembroke Magazine, Encyclopedia Latina, and many other newspapers and literary 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: A Novel:

"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

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