Discovering New Life Through Books
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* Sandra Cisneros
* Isabel Allende
* Gary Soto
* William Carlos Williams
* Jorge Luis Borges
* Julia Alvarez
* Octavio Paz
* Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
* Nicholasa Mohr
* Oscar Hijuelos
Sandra Cisneros
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Sandra Cisneros (born December 20,1954) is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street (1984) and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). Her work experiments with literary forms and investigates emerging subject positions, which Cisneros herself attributes to growing up in a context of cultural hybridity and economic inequality that endowed her with unique stories to tell. She is the recipient of numerous awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and is regarded as a key figure in Chicana literature.
Cisneros's early life provided many experiences she would later draw on as a writer: she grew up as the only daughter in a family of six brothers, which often made her feel isolated, and the constant migration of her family between Mexico and the USA instilled in her the sense of "always straddling two countries ... but not belonging to either culture." Cisneros's work deals with the formation of Chicana identity, exploring the challenges of being caught between Mexican and Anglo-American cultures, facing the misogynist attitudes present in both these cultures, and experiencing poverty. For her insightful social critique and powerful prose style, Cisneros has achieved recognition far beyond Chicano and Latino communities, to the extent that The House on Mango Street has been translated worldwide and is taught in American classrooms as a coming-of-age novel.
Cisneros has held a variety of professional positions, working as a teacher, a counselor, a college recruiter, a poet-in-the-schools, and an arts administrator, and has maintained a strong commitment to community and literary causes. In 1998 she established the Macondo Foundation, which provides socially conscious workshops for writers, and in 2000 she founded the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation, which awards talented writers connected to Texas. Cisneros currently resides in San Antonio, Texas.
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Isabel Allende
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Isabel Allende Llona, (born in Lima, Peru; 2 August 1942), is a Peruvian born Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the "magic realist" tradition, is one of the first successful women writers in Latin America.The list 101 top leaders of the Latino community in t...
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Gary Soto
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Gary Soto (born April 12, 1952) is a Mexican-American author and poet.
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William Carlos Williams
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William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 ? March 4, 1963), also known as WCW, was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine. Williams "worked harder at being a writer than he did at being a physician," wrote b...
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Jorge Luis Borges
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo () (24 August 1899 ? 14 June 1986) was an Argentine writer and poet born in Buenos Aires. In 1914, his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school and traveled to Spain. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and e...
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Julia Alvarez
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Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York of Dominican descent, she spent the first ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, until her father's involvement in a political rebellion forced her family to flee the country.
Al...
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Octavio Paz
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Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914-April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
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Sor Juana was born (November 12, 1651. Some biographers record her birth year as 1648, - April 17, 1695).
She was known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and also by her full name: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz de Asbaje (or Asuaje) y Ramírez de Santillana . Her birth name was Juana Inés Ramírez de San...
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Nicholasa Mohr
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Latin American Literature
Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America (and the Caribbean) in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and indigenous tongues. It rose to particular prominence globally during the second half of the 20th century, largely due to the international success of the style known as magical realism. As such, the region's literature is often associated solely with this style (and its most famous exponent, Gabriel García Márquez). This lar...
Oscar Hijuelos
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Oscar Hijuelos (born August 24 1951) is an American novelist. He is the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Hijuelos was born in New York City, in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, to Cuban immigrant parents. He attended the Corpus Christi School Carlson, Lori M.; and Hijuelos, Oscar,...
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