Finalist for Tennessee Book Award and The Christy Award®
An American Immigrant, a novel by Johanna Rojas Vann (WaterBrook, Aug 15, 2023), received two awards at the 2024 International Latino Book Awards, held on Oct. 19, 2024, in Los Angeles. Rojas Vann was awarded the Gold Award for Best First Book – Fiction and was honored with the Silver Award for The Isabel Allende Most Inspirational Fiction Book– English. The largest awards program in the US celebrating achievements in Latino literature, the program celebrated this year’s Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medal winners in 105 categories of Children and Young Adult Books, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Translation, and Mariposa books.
Rojas Vann’s debut novel was also recognized as a finalist in the first ever Tennessee Book Awards in the fiction category announced on October 21, 2024.
In addition, An American Immigrant is a finalist in the First Novel category at the upcoming ECPA Christy Awards to be held on November 14, 2024, in Chicago.
In An American Immigrant, a Colombian American journalist tries to save her career by taking an assignment somewhere she never thought she’d go—Colombia—in this heartwarming debut novel about rediscovering our family stories. Johanna Rojas Vann is a professional writer whose work can be found online and within numerous publications. She is a second-generation Colombian American, with dual citizenship, and lives with her husband and children in Nashville, Tennessee.
WaterBrook is an imprint of the Penguin Random House Christian Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House.
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