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Translated from the Spanish by Tess O’Dwyer
Published: Thu Apr 15 1993
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Giannina Braschi is a Puerto Rican novelist and essayist. She is best noted for her use of the “Spanglish” language in the novel Yo-Yo Boing! (Latin American Literary Review Press, 1998). The recipient of grants from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, she has taught at the City University of New York and Rutgers University. (updated 7/2010)

Tess O’Dwyer’s Columbia University Translation Center Award-winning translation of Braschi’s Empire of Dreams, which she did with late Jose Vazquez-Amaral, was published in 1994 by Yale University Press. (updated 7/2010)
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