2014 by TheLatinoAuthor.com. In a review of the revised novel from Prime Number Magazine, Brandon D. Shuler wrote: "Without the intellectual questioning of truth in The Nature of Truth, his mature works, I believe, would not have been possible. Troncoso, primarily known for his US-Mexican Border works, is, as The Nature of Truth suggests, the brightest and most able of the modern Border writers and thinkers." Troncoso served as one of three national judges for the 2016 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2017, he was a National Writing Juror in the Critical Essay category for the Scholastic Writing Awards and Final Judge in the Essay category in the New Letters Literary Awards. That year the author was elected to a second two-year term on the board of councilors of the Texas Institute of Letters and in May he was appointed Secretary, an officer of the TIL. In October 2017, Troncoso permanently endowed the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best Work of First Fiction at the Texas Institute of Letters to encourage the next generation of writers from his home state. On April 7, 2018, Troncoso was elected Vice President of the Texas Institute of Letters. He was again a National Writing Juror for Scholastic Writing Awards, this time in the Personal Essay category in 2018. In 2019, Troncoso published a collection of linked short stories on immigration, A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son (Cinco Puntos Press), which Junot Díaz praised as a "masterwork" and Luis Alberto Urrea called "a world-class collection." A reviewer for The Texas Observer wrote: "The El Paso author’s newest collection depicts contemporary Mexican American life with a characteristic blend of sorrow and humor. It’s his most powerful work yet, and an essential addition to the Latinx canon." Lone Star Literary Life chose the book for the "Best of Texas 2019". "Rosary on the Border," the first story in A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son, won the 2020 Kay Cattarulla Award for Best Short Story from the Texas Institute of Letters. A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son won the Gold Medal for Best Collection of Short Stories from the International Latino Book Awards and the Silver Award for Adult Multicultural Fiction from ForeWord Reviews. On March 28, 2020, Troncoso was elected President of the Texas Institute of Letters. His two-year term as president was noted for achieving a record number of submissions for the twelve annual literary contests