Giannina Braschi was born on February 5,1953 and is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, dramatist, and scholar.
14 Facts About Giannina Braschi
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Giannina Braschi's work is a hybrid of poetry, metafiction, postdramatic theatre, memoir, manifesto, and political philosophy.
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Giannina Braschi's writings explore the enculturation journey of Hispanic immigrants, and dramatize the three main political options of Puerto Rico: independence, colony, and state.
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Giannina Braschi was born to an upper-class family of Italian ancestry in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Giannina Braschi's father Euripides Braschi was a tennis champion.
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Giannina Braschi credited her start in poetry to the older Spanish poets who mentored her when she lived in Madrid: Claudio Rodriguez, Carlos Bousono, Vicente Aleixandre, and Blas de Otero.
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Giannina Braschi has received awards and fellowships from institutions including Ford Foundation, Danforth Scholarship, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Rutgers University, and PEN, among others.
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Giannina Braschi published a book on the poetry of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer and essays on Cervantes, Garcilaso, Cesar Vallejo, Juan Ramon Jimenez and Federico Garcia Lorca.
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Giannina Braschi's work is situated in the Latino avant-garde, a "burgeoning body of work that testifies to Latino writers' abiding interest in the avant-garde as a means for engaging ideas of material, social relevance".
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Giannina Braschi's writings are placed within the fields of Postcolonial, Postmodern, and Nuyorican literatures, as well as Latino political philosophy.
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Giannina Braschi published the geopolitical comic-tragedy United States of Banana, her first book written entirely in English, in 2011.
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Giannina Braschi stated in Evergreen Review that she considered herself "more French than Beckett, Picasso and Gertrude Stein", and identifies as the "granddaughter of Alfred Jarry and Antonin Artaud, bastard child of Samuel Beckett and James Joyce, half-sister to Heiner Muller, kissing cousin of Tadeusz Kantor, and lover of Witkiewicz".
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Giannina Braschi's texts have been adapted and applied to popular culture and fields such as television comedy, chamber music, comic books, industrial design, and ecological urban planning.
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Giannina Braschi's books have been translated into English by Tess O'Dwyer, into Spanish by Manuel Broncano, and into Swedish by Helena Eriksson and Hannah Nordenhok.