In 2012, Columbia Journalism Review named Nazario among “40 women who changed the media business in the past 40.” She has been named among the most influential Latinos by Hispanic Business Magazine and a “trendsetter” by Hispanic Magazine. Now at work on her second book, Nazario, who grew up in Kansas and in Argentina, and began her career at the Wall Street Journal, has written extensively from Latin America and about Latinos in the United States. And in 1994, she won a George Polk Award for Local Reporting for a series about hunger among schoolchildren in California. In 1998, Nazario was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for a series on children of drug addicted parents. It has been required reading for incoming freshman at more than 71 colleges, scores of high schools and a young adult version, published in 2014, has broadened the book’s use to middle schools. Kennedy Journalism Award and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Guillermo Martinez-Marquez Award for Overall Excellence.Įxpanded into a book, "Enrique’s Journey" became a national bestseller, won three book awards and became a favorite among educators. Her story of a Honduran boy’s struggle to find his mother in the U.S., entitled "Enrique’s Journey," won more than a dozen awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, the George Polk Award for International Reporting, the Grand Prize of the Robert F. She has won numerous national journalism and book awards. hunger, drug addiction and immigration - most recently as a projects reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Sonia Nazario has spent more than 20 years reporting and writing about large social issues in the U.S. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist
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