Giannina Braschi

Giannina Braschi ( born February 5, 1953 in San Juan ) is a Puerto Rican writer and academic.

Life

Giannina Braschi came in 1977 to New York City and graduated from the State University of New York graduate ( Ph.D.) in Spanish literature. After that, she taught literature at Rutgers University, Queens College and at Colgate University. It is regarded as a leading woman in the Nuyorican movement ( a cultural direction from New York and Puerto Rican ).

Literary development

Braschis early works were directed by the major poets of the Golden Age and the avant-garde Latin American authors. She wrote a book about the romantic Gustavo Adolfo Becquer and essays on Cervantes, Vallejo and Garcia Lorca. Then they came up with the dramatic and philosophical books French, German, Irish, Polish and Russian authors in contact and was impressed by it. Although their books are classified as novels, her later works experiments both in style and format and display a wealth of exotic influences.

Friederike C. Raderer said in the Austrian ORF in an article about Puerto Rico: " Yo- Yo Boing " With its novel the linguistic mishmash that is common among Hispanics in New York, (it has ) the "Spanglish " a monument.

Work

  • " Asalto al tiempo ", Ambitos Literarios, Barcelona, 1980. Spanish
  • La poesía de Becquer. Costa Amic, Mexico City 1982.
  • " La comedia profana " Anthropos editorial del hombre, Barcelona, 1985. Spanish
  • " El imperio de los suenos ," Anthropos editorial del hombre, Barcelona, 1988. Spanish
  • "Empire of Dreams" (English translation ), Yale University Press, New Haven / London, 1994. English
  • "Yo -Yo Boing! ", Latin American Literary Review, Pittsburgh, 1998. Spanglish, Spanish, and English
  • " El imperio de los suenos " Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, 2000.
  • "United States of Banana, " Amazon Crossing, Seattle, 2011. English
  • "Yo -Yo Boing! " Amazon Crossing, Seattle, 2011. English
  • "Empire of Dreams, " Amazon Crossing, Seattle, 2011. English

Prizes and awards

  • Danforth Scholarship
  • El Diario La Prensa 's Outstanding Women of 1998
  • Ford Foundation Fellowship
  • National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
  • New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
  • Reed Foundation / Inter Americas
  • PEN American Center 's Open Book Award
  • Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña / grant
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