Unterberg Poetry Center 2023-2024 presents “Daughters of Latin America: An Anthology Reading”, a special program featuring Latine and Caribbean authors such as Rosie Perez, Giannina Braschi, Jamaica Kincaid, and others.
World Literature Today: Carlos Labbé wonders whether it is “still possible to speak of experimental writing when we live in a reality where facts are constantly written in a language already programmed by someone else.” Examining the work of Giannina Braschi, he makes a case that it is, indeed, still possible.
Como parte de las actividades celebratorias del quincuagésimo aniversario de la ANLE, la Junta Directiva dio a conocer el programa de la ceremonia protocolar que se llevará a cabo el sábado 3 de junio en las instalaciones del Instituto Cervantes de Nueva York (211 East 49th Street, New York, NY). Presentación del Premio Nacional “Enrique Anderson Imbert” de la ANLE en sus ediciones 2022 y 2023:...
Cinco destacadas escritoras han conversado sobre el estrecho contacto entre el español y el inglés y su reflejo en la cultura literaria: la puertorriqueña Giannina Braschi, la americana de origen mexicano Ana Castillo y la española María Dueñas, además de la directora de la Academia Guatemalteca, Raquel Montenegro, presentadora del acto, y la académica española Soledad Puértolas, que lo ha...
Con el tema “Lengua española, mestizaje e interculturalidad” y casi 300 participantes procedentes de todo el mundo, se celebrará en Cádiz, el IX Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española entre los días 27 y 30 de marzo. Será inaugurado por los reyes de España en una ceremonia en el Gran Teatro Falla. Esta novena edición del CILE la organizan el Instituto Cervantes, la Real Academia Española y...
Arizona Journal of Hispanic Studies published this book review by Nuria Morgado of United States of Banana by Giannina Braschi and Joakim Lindengren.
MASTERFULLY ILLUSTRATED.
MASTERFULLY WRITTEN.
American Book Review features an essay by Peter Hitchcock on Latinx Philosopher Giannina Braschi... "Poets, Philosophers, Lovers is a welcome and well-conceived volume on the extraordinary work of Giannina Braschi, a Puerto Rican writer and consummate New Yorker whose creative decolonizing of aesthetics and culture deserves sustained critical engagement. Braschi is best known for three works in...
Biografía de la escritora Giannina Braschi. “Pocas voces se han alzado en los últimos tiempos con la fuerza creadora y la capacidad de seducción de Giannina Braschi, la poeta puertorriqueña que ha revolucionado el panorama literario con una propuesta sincera, innovadora e inquietante. Braschi utiliza la palabra como una herramienta para la transformación social, un arma del futuro capaz de...
The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction 1980–2020 features an entry on Giannina Braschi. "Giannina Braschi's United States of Banana (2011) takes off from her groundbreaking quasi-novel Yo-Yo Boing! (1998), and culminates a trilogy that began with El imperio de los sueños (1988), to mark a paradigmatic shift in the millennial poetics of witness of Martí's and Whitman's New York with a...
Puerto Rican author Giannina Braschi wins the 2021 Cambiemos Prize from Cambio16 in Spain for her lifetime achievements in literature. Sir David Frederick Attenborough was honored by Cambio16 in 2020, and Al Gore was honored for his life's work in environmental justice in 2019.
American Book Review of "Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: on the Writings of Giannina Braschi".
"This is a welcome and well-conceived volume on the extraordinary work of Giannina Braschi, a Puerto Rican writer and consummate New Yorker whose creative decolonizing of aesthetics and culture deserves sustained critical engagement," writes Peter Hitchcock in "Slippery Subjectivity".
En la historia de Giannina Braschi, exalumna de Sagrado, se escribe un nuevo capítulo luego que la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE) le otorgara un premio “Enrique Anderson Imbert” este 2022, por su trayectoria literaria. De inicio, “la madre Arzuaga me exhortó a estudiar psicología y filosofía, un ejercicio que me ayudó a encontrarme”, dijo la poeta egresada del Colegio de las...
Read about Puerto Rican graphic novels, starting with "United States of Banana" by Giannina Braschi and Joakim Lindengren. “I was a monument to immigration—now I’m a border control cop.” So admits the Statue of Liberty in Giannina Braschi’s United States of Banana, a rollicking and nakedly political allegory of US imperialism and Puerto Rican independence. Illustrated by Swedish comic book artist...
Christopher Lightfoot Walker Reading Series 2023. Daughters of Latin America: An Anthology Reading Hosted by Rosie Perez amd featuring Giannina Braschi, Sonia Guiñansaca, Jamaica Kincaid, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, and Esmeralda Santiago. An eclectic and inclusive time capsule spanning centuries, genres, and geographical and linguistic diversity, Daughters of Latin America is...
Daughters of Latin America An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women By Sandra Guzman Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world—from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Acevedo and artist/poet Cecilia Vicuña—gathered in...
Diasporic Journeys is a collection of interviews on contemporary Diasporic Puerto Rican authors publishing and performing throughout the Unites States and abroad, with particular interest in the ways in which history, traditions, geographic dispersal, cultural/ national identity, and linguistic merging converge in their lived experience and in their writing. The collection includes interviews...
Tercer Congreso de la ANLE:
Convocatoria a la presentación de trabajos para el III Congreso de la ANLE, que se llevará a cabo en Miami del 18 al 21 de mayo del 2023 en el marco del 50º aniversario de su fundación, y con el lema “El español, lengua y creación en Estados Unidos”.