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Achy Obejas

About The Author

Achy Obejas was born in Havana, Cuba and now lives outside San Francisco. She has received a Pulitzer Prize for her work as a journalist at the Chicago Tribune and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, among other honors. Her most recent book as an author, The Tower of the Antilles, was a PEN/Faulker finalist. She has translated into Spanish Junot Díaz's The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao, as well as Adam Mansbach & Ricardo Cortes' picture book Go the F**k to Sleep, among many other titles.

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Achy Obejas nació en La Habana, Cuba y ahora reside en las afueras de San Francisco. Ha recibido un Premio Pulitzer por su trabajo como periodista en el Chicago Tribune y un NEA Fellowship en Poesia, entre otros galardones. Su libro más reciente como autora, The Tower of the Antilles, feu finalista para el Premio PEN/Faulkner. Ha traducido al español La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao de Junot Díaz y el álbum ilustrado ¡Duérmete, carajo! de Adam Mansbach y Ricardo Cortes, entre muchos otros libros.

Books by Achy Obejas