Kanishka Mehra
Susannah Rodríguez Drissi, a faculty member in the UCLA Writing Programs, was awarded for her debut novel “Until We’re Fish.”
UCLA Newsroom |
May 7, 2021
Susannah Rodríguez Drissi, a faculty member in the UCLA Writing Programs, has been awarded the Nautilus Book Award for her debut novel “Until We’re Fish.” The coming-of-age story blends the romance, violence, mood and ethos of the Cuban Revolution with a young man’s hopeless and heroic first love.
“Until We’re Fish” has also been nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN Open Book Award and the PEN/Hemingway Book Award for debut novels.