Author Giannina Braschi
The Library of Congress calls Giannina Braschi “cutting-edge, influential, and even revolutionary,” and PEN America recognizes her as “one of the most revolutionary voices in Latin America today.”
Giannina Braschi is the author of the epic poem El imperio de los sueños/Empire of Dreams, the iconic Spanglish novel Yo-Yo Boing!, and the geopolitical tragicomedy United States of Banana. Her new book PUTINOIKA dramatizes frenzy and plague in the Trump and Putin era as an epic tragicomedy.
Her texts have been widely adapted and applied to theatre, chamber music, graphic novels, painting, photography, artist books, short films, industrial design, and urban planning. Her life’s work is the subject of the anthology of essays, Poets Philosophers Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and Tess O’Dwyer.
Braschi’s accolades include honors from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Danforth Foundation, Ford Foundation, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, and PEN America. She has received lifetime achievement awards from the American Studies Association (Angela Y. Davis Award), North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE), Cambio 16 in Spain, and her native city of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Terms frequently associated with the award winning author Giannina Braschi include Postcolonial Literature, Latinx Philosophy, Postdramatic Theatre, Hysterical Realism, McOndo, and Post-Boom. She goes simply by poet.