To date, the film has received awards in 14 international Film Festivals, such as the Latin Cinema Award at the Sundance Film Festival, Special Jury Award at the Rencontres Cinémas de Toulouse, France, and Best Opera Prima by the Critique Française. The film was produced by John Sayles and successfully released in Latin America in January of 2001. María wrote the screenplay Santitos, on which she based her novel. Also, many of her short stories have been published in journals and magazines, both in English and Spanish. Her books have been chosen as the annual book selection for several Community Reads public library-funded projects, One City One Book, A Novel Idea. She has been named Writer to Watch by Newsweek magazine and by the Los Angeles Times. It has been in best seller lists around the country and is the publisher’s “Book of the Year” in Spain. and its Spanish version, Transportes González e Hija, was published in 2005 by Random House. Her new novel, González & Daughter Trucking Co. It has 21 foreign editions and has been read in over 86 countries. Her novel has been the number one best seller in the Los Angeles Times Best Sellers List. María Amparo Escandón, a best-selling bilingual author (English and Spanish), wrote her first novel, Esperanza’s Box of Saints and its Spanish version, Santitos, published in late 1999 by Simon & Schuster and Random House respectively.
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