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Winter 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 1 Far Corners Folio |

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Mario Alberto Zambrano published his debut novel, Lotería, in 2013 with Harper. He was named a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts in 1994 and was the recipient of the Princess Grace Award in 1995, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in 2016, and the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction in 2019. He has participated in multiple residencies across the globe, including that of the Hawthornden Foundation at Hawthornden Castle in Scotland. Zambrano has served as lecturer in the Theater, Dance & Media concentration at Harvard University and is currently Associate Director of Dance at The Juilliard School and artistic liaison for Orsolina28, in Moncalvo, Italy.

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