Achy Obejas
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| Achy Obejas | |
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| Born | June 28, 1956 Havana, Cuba |
| Occupation | novelist, journalist |
| Notable work(s) | Days of Awe |
| Notable award(s) | Lambda Literary Awards (x2) |
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Achy Obejas (born 1956) is a Cuban American writer and journalist focused on personal and national identity issues,[1] living in Chicago, Illinois.
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[edit] Life and career
Obejas was born June 28, 1956 in Havana, Cuba.[2] After emigrating to the United States at the age of six, she lived in Michigan City, Indiana and attended Indiana University from 1977–1979, when she moved to Chicago.
Beginning in 1991, she was a reporter, and later, a freelance entertainment writer for the Chicago Tribune and other publications. She earned an M.F.A from Warren Wilson College in 1993.[2] She was the Springer Lecturer in Creative Writing (2003–2005) at the University of Chicago, as well as an advisor for the online prose magazine, Otium.
In fall of 2005, she served as the Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Hawai'i.
As of 2006, she is the Sor Juana visiting writer at DePaul University.
In 2008, she translated Junot Diaz's Pulitzer-prize winning novel, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao into Spanish.
Obejas has written the novels Memory Mambo and Days of Awe, and the story collection We Came All the Way from Cuba so You Could Dress Like This?.
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[edit] References
- ^ Textor, Lauren (October 11, 2006), "A Cuban American writer on her identity", The Daily Pennsylvanian, http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2006/10/11/News/A.Cuban.American.Writer.On.Her.Identity-2343789.shtml, retrieved 2009-03-25
- ^ a b Contemporary Authors Online Thompson Gale, 2006
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- Lesbian writers
- LGBT people from Cuba
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- People from Havana
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