Achy Obejas

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 / Faulkner finalist. She has translated into Spanish Junot Díaz's The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao , as well as Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortes' picture book Go the F**k to Sleep, among many other titles . He has translated into Spanish The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz and the illustrated album Go to Sleep, Damn It! by Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortes, among many other books.

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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.