Since joining The New Yorker, Ms. Guillermoprieto has written numerous articles on Latin America, including reports on the uprisings in Chiapas, Mexico, and about Pablo Escobar and the Colombian drug cartels. Her article on the Shining Path in Peru was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 1994.

Ms. Guillermoprieto has written two books. Her first, "Samba," was nominated for the 1990 National Book Critics Cricle Award. Her second, "The Heart That Bleeds," brings together thirteen stories which originally ran in The New Yorker between 1989 and 1993.

In June, 1995, Ms. Guillermoprieto was honored with a MacArthur Fellowship by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in recognition of her "accomplishments in journalism which demonstrate originality, creativity, and ability to make a contribution to our life." She is the recipient of several other awards, including a 1985 Alicia Patterson fellowship, Columbia University's 1990 Maria Moors Cabot Prize, and the 1992 Latin American Studies Association Award. In 1994, she became the first recipient of the Samuel Chavkin Prize for Integrity in Latin American Journalism.

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