Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize

The Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize is awarded by the National Book Critics Circle. Named after the San Antonio playwright, poet and journalist Gregg Barrios, the prize was first awarded in 2022. It is awarded annually for “the best book of any genre translated into English and published in the United States”.

Namesake

Barrios was a playwright, poet and journalist. A 2013 USC Annenberg Getty Fellow, and on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle. He was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters and was the 2015 fall visiting writer at Our Lady of the Lake University. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Texas Observer, Texas Monthly, Film Quarterly, San Francisco Chronicle, and Andy Warhol's Interview. He was a former book editor of the San Antonio Express-News.