Mayra Santos-Febres 
Author

Poemas

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(luna en Piscis) espanhol

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[Ah si morenita, véndeme tu carne por un beso] espanhol

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[en el vientre de los nuevos animales] espanhol

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[flota mi morenito] espanhol

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[la costa allá morena por la noche] espanhol

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[cambiar de nombre] espanhol

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[Llegas a la ciudad donde te pierdes] espanhol

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Mayra Santos-Febres 
Author

Foto © Timo Berger
* 26.02.1966, Carolina, Porto Rico
vive em: Puerto Rico, Porto Rico

Mayra Santos-Febres was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, in 1966. She studied Literature at the University of Puerto Rico and received two postgraduate degrees from Cornell University. She is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras and a member of the International and Multicultural Institute of the UPR. She has received, among other awards, the Letras de Oro and the Juan Rulfo, both in the short story genre. She is the recipient of a John S. Simon Guggenheim scholarship (2017) and the Rockefeller Bellagio Center Residency (2018). Her works have been translated into French, English, German, Croatian, Korean, Icelandic and Italian. She is the author of the poetry books Anamú y manigua (1990), The escaped order (1991), Boat People (2005), Tercer Mundo (2014-20), and Huracanada (2018). She has also published the novels, Sirena Selena vestida de pena (2001), Cualquier miércoles soy tuya (2002), Fe en disfraz, Nuestra Señora de la noche, La amante de Gardel, and the collections of essays, Tratado de Medicina Natural para Hombres Melancólicos and Sobre piel y papel.

 Foto © Timo Berger
Publicações
  • Anamu y manigua

    [poemas]

    Río Piedras, P.R.: Editorial La iguana dorada, 1990

  • El orden escapado

    [poemas]

    1991

  • Pez de vidrio

    [relatos cortos]

    1994

  • El cuerpo correcto

    1996

  • Urban Oracles

    Translated by Nathan Budoff u. Lydia Platon Lázaro

    Cambridge: Lumen, Brookline, 1997

  • Sirena Selena vestida de pena

    [novela]

    España: Grijalbo Mondadori, 2000

  • Sirena Selena

    [Novel]

    Translated by Stephen Lytle

    New York City: Picador, 2000

  • Tercer mundo

    2000

  • Cualquier miércoles soy tuya

    [novela]

    2002

  • Sobre piel y papel

    2005

  • Boat People

    [poemas]

    2005

  • Any Wednesday I’m Yours

    [Cualquier miércoles soy tuya]

    Translated by James Graham

    New York City: Riverhead, 2005

  • Ernesto , El domador de los suenos

    2008

  • Nuestra Señora de la Noche

    [novela]

    2006

  • Our Lady of the Night

    Translated by Ernesto Mestre-Reed

    New York City: Harper Perennial, 2009

  • Sirena Selena

    A Novel

    Translated into English by Stephen A. Lytle

    Picador, 2007

  • Fe en disfraz

    2009

  • Gedichte

    Puerto-ricanisches Spanisch / deutsch

    Übersetzt von Timo Berger

    Berlin: hochroth Berlin, 2011

  • Tratado de Medicina Natural para Hombres Melancólicos

    2011

  • El baile de la vida

    2012

  • La amante de Gardel

    [novela]

    Editorial Planeta, 2015

  • Sirena Selena

    traduction de François-Michel Durazzo

    Zulma, 2017

  • Huracanada

    Trabalis Editores, 2018

  • La maîtresse de Carlos Gardel

    traduction de François-Michel Durazzo

    Zulma, 2019

  • Lecciones de renuncia

    Universidad Veracruzana, 2020

  • Boat People

    Bilingual edition

    Translated into English by Vanessa Perez-Rosario

    CARDBOARD HOUSE PRESS, 2021

  • Poesía casi completa

    Colección Alfabeto del mundo / Poesía contemporáneael

    1era La Castalia / Línea imaginaria, 2021

Prêmios
  • Mellon Foundation Fellowship

  • Ford Foundation Fellowship

  • 1991 Award for poetry from Revista Tríptico in Puerto Rico

  • 1994 Award Letras de Oro

  • 1996 Award Juan Rulfo de cuentos

  • 2001 Award Rómulo Gallegos

  • 2007 Premio Nacional de Literatura (Puerto Rico)

  • 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship

  • 2019 Premio Nacional de Literatura de la Academie de Pharmacie en Paris, Francia

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