Books by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir
by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
☆ Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography
When Ingrid Rojas Contreras wakes from a head injury with memory lost, she finds her family oddly excited. This has happened before, they tell her: when her maternal grandmother recovered from amnesia, she gained access to 'the secrets'—supernatural abilities to talk to the dead, treat the sick and control the weather. Spurred on my her mother, Rojas Contreras retraces her indigenous Colombian roots to locate the root of their magic—and discovers a violent colonial history.
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Autobiographies and Memoirs
Since 2023, the Pulitzer Prize jury has awarded $15,000 annually to “a distinguished and factual memoir or autobiography by an American author.” We’ve put together a list of the exceptional books that have received this honour since the prize’s inauguration—plus the finalists who have been singled out for particular praise.
