
ĭon Bartletti won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for the photographs he took for the Los Angeles Times series, which are also featured in the book.

The series of Los Angeles Times articles that was the genesis of the book won more than 20 journalism awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. Lourdes is heard telling Sonia that she didn't know this was going to happen. Enrique stands and wraps his arms around his mother and sister, and the three of them embrace as the audience cheers. Lourdes stands to meet her and they embrace, both sobbing. Don Francisco then announces that he got a visa for Belky to visit, and he calls for her to come out.

In the episode, Lourdes said through tears that it had been 17 years since she has seen her daughter Belky, who remained in Honduras. Sonia Nazario joined Enrique and his mother, Lourdes, to discuss Enrique's Journey and what happened after the newspaper series was published. Don Francisco Presenta Reunion Įnrique's family was reunited on a Spanish-language talk show produced by Univision called Don Francisco Presenta hosted by Don Francisco. Nazario has continued to cover Central American migration and unaccompanied minors in her opinion column for The New York Times, and to post other coverage of unaccompanied minors making the journey north on her website. She then retraced his journey a second time. by making the same 3,000-mile round-trip journey, much of it on top of 7 freight trains, up the length of Mexico. After doing months of research, she met the book's Enrique, a then 16-year-old illegal immigrant, at a shelter fructed Enrique's dangerous trek from Honduras to the U.S. Nazario reconstructing on and writing Enrique's Journey. She spent time shadowing him there and hearing about his remarkable trip north. Nazario spent nearly five years reporting about migrants in Nuevo Laredo.

The book was based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles written in 2002 by Sonia Nazario for the Los Angeles Times. The young adult version was published in Spanish in July 2015. A young adult version was also published in 2013. The non-fiction book has been published in eight languages, and is sold in both English and Spanish editions in the United States. It was first published in 2006 by Random House. Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with his Mother was a national best-seller by Sonia Nazario about a 17-year-old boy from Honduras who travels to the United States in search of his mother.
