As part of the 2025 International Book Fair [Feria Internacional del Libro, FIL RIO 2025] to be held from November 3 to 8 at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras (UPR-RP), author Giannina Braschi will have a conversation about her work. With Dr. Carmen Haydée Rivera Vega as moderator, this event will take place on Tuesday, November 4, at 10:00am, at the Jorge Enjuto Room, School of Humanities, UPR-RP.
Carmen Dolores Hernández Badillo (El Nuevo Día) writes: “It’ is difficult to describe Giannina Braschi’s literary personality. She was born here, but lives there, and she comes and goes; she writes in English, she writes in Spanish, and often in Spanglish; she began as a tennis player, studied literature, and as a writer, she ‘wants to take literature out of literature’; she is a poet and a prose writer, but she is seduced by the dramatic: she juxtaposes and contrasts voices, attitudes, slogans, genres, and languages; she loves everything Greek, but her poetry is very contemporary; indeed, it anticipates the present moment. And while her books shout, disturb, and attack, her personality is gentle, soft, and polite.”
Description translated by Ivette Romero. See more on the author at https://gianninabraschi.com/ and https://gianninabraschi.com/putinoika/