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...
CENTRO, the journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, reviews Poets Philosophers Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi. "What we witness in Braschi is an artist that moves beyond the traditional im/migrant story in search of the American Dream, though the American Dream looms large in her writing. Her work reveals characterizations that constantly question the imposition of ideologies...
The anthology "GLOBAL MIDDLE EAST: Into the 21st Century features a brilliant chapter "On Nations Without Borders" by Hamid Dabashi who shows what Mozart, Nietzsche and Braschi have in common. "One particularly powerful gestation of Nietzsche's Zarathustra is via Walter Kaufmann's groundbreaking translation into English. It came to North America and eventually found its way to an utterly...
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...
The North American Academy of the Spanish Language bestowed its 2022 Enrique Anderson Imbert Award upon the renowned Puerto Rican writer Giannina Braschi.
"La decisión de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española de otorgar el Premio Enrique Anderson Imbert 2022 a Giannina Braschi, no solo acrecienta el reconocimiento internacional de esta destacada escritora puertorriqueña, sino que marca un hito de apertura panhispánica hacia una Obra que cuestiona, con calculada precisión y sin clichés ideológicos, las fronteras de los géneros y las...
"The Poetry of Giannina Braschi: Art and Magic in Assault on Time" by Laura R. Loustau contextualizes Braschi's first book of poems Asalto al tiempo within the context of Latin American visual arts and literature. The full essay appears in "Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020). Enjoy these excerpts.
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".
Boston College Libraries recommends Boom and Post-Boom Literature Classics by novelists and storytellers such as: Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, José Donoso, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Roberto Bolaño, Cristina Peri Rossi, Elena Poniatowska, Severo Sarduy, Manuel Puig, Luisa Valenzuela, and Giannina Braschi.
The Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies declares "Poets Philosophers Lovers" an essential resource for Braschian studies. "Like the poets, philosophers, and lovers who are knocking on the door to enter the dialogue of the Republic in United States of Banana, this volume crosses a threshold as a means to critically and creatively reflect on the lifework of Giannina Braschi. This, above...
The anthology "GLOBAL MIDDLE EAST: Into the 21st Century features a brilliant chapter "On Nations Without Borders" by Hamid Dabashi who shows what Mozart, Nietzsche and Braschi have in common. "One particularly powerful gestation of Nietzsche's Zarathustra is via Walter Kaufmann's groundbreaking translation into English. It came to North America and eventually found its way to an utterly...
THE GREENWOOD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LATINO LITERATURE edited by Nicolás Kanellos in 2010 features an entry on Latina novelist and poet Giannina Braschi.
NEWS FROM THE BOOK WORLD 2022 Literary Awards and Accolades: Knight Owl by Christopher Denise, Hooky by Míriam Bonastre Tur and Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao named winners of the 2022 Barnes & Noble Children’s & Young Adult Book Awards. Lea Ypi’s Free wins the 2022 RSL Ondaatje Prize. Charlie Petch’s Why I Was Late wins the 2022 ReLit Award for Poetry. Puerto Rican writer Giannina Braschi wins...
La Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE) otorgó su Premio Nacional “Enrique Anderson Imbert 2022” a la destacada escritora puertorriqueña Giannina Braschi. El jurado premió, por unanimidad, a Giannina Braschi, cuya trayectoria exhibe una riqueza de facetas que excede cualquier denominación simplificadora”, comentó el director de la ANLE, Carlos E. Paldao. Se trata del...
La Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua Española promueve el uso correcto, la conservación y el estudio del español en el contexto de la historia cultural del País, desde sus orígenes hasta sus más recientes manifestaciones, y representa internacionalmente a Puerto Rico ante las Academias hermanas.