Viviana Prado-Núñez
Viviana Prado-Núñez is a writer and theatre-maker who was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in a hospital with a 4.0 Google review rating and a view of the ocean. She has never seen Star Wars, eaten a grasshopper, or written a poem without the letter “e,” though she hopes to do all three of those things in the future. Previous credits include winning the 2017 Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature for The Art of White Roses, winning the 2017 Morgan Parker Poetry Prize, longlisting for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award, and being listed on the New York Public Library’s recommended reading list for 2020 National Caribbean American Heritage Month. She has also developed plays with The Center at West Park, Echo Theater Company’s 2019 National Young Playwrights in Residence program, and Corkscrew Theater Festival. She recently graduated from Columbia University in the City of New York with a B.A. in Theatre, and is currently based in NYC.
A reading from the award-winning Young Adult novel The Art of White Roses
En Papillote is a series of readings by authors from the list of Papillote Press of Dominica and the UK. Each video is introduced by publisher Polly Pattullo. Here, Viviana Prado-Núñez of Puerto Rico reads from her Young Adult novel, The Art of White Roses.
