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Sandra Cisneros


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Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954 in Chicago) is a Latina author and poet best known for her novel The House on Mango Street. She is also the author of Caramelo, published by Knopf in 2002, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991), My Wicked Wicked Ways (1987) and a collection of poems, Loose Woman. Her books and poetry have been translated into over a dozen languages, including Spanish, Galician, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Norwegian, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, and, most recently, into Greek, Thai, and Serbo-Croatian. Much of her writing is influenced by her Mexican heritage.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   The House on Mango Street (1991)
   Caramelo (2002)
   Martita, I Remember You (2021)
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Collections
   My Wicked Wicked Ways (poems) (1987)
   Woman Hollering Creek (1991)
   Loose Woman (poems) (1994)
   Vintage Cisneros (2004)
   A Very Mexican Christmas (2022) (with others)
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Sandra Cisneros recommends
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The Great Divide (2024)
Cristina Henríquez
"The Great Divide is Cristina Henriquez's novel reconstruction of the Panama Canal, a well-crafted and meticulously researched marriage of history and story."
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The Suicide Museum (2023)
Ariel Dorfman
"Ariel Dorfman has created a history book disguised as a mystery, or maybe a mystery written as history. Lodged between memoir and fiction, The Suicide Museum is a labyrinth of mirrors, a tale of one nation, or perhaps all nations, where the tortured are condemned to live alongside their torturers. An intricate, thought-provoking read by a literary magician."
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The Covenant of Water (2022)
Abraham Verghese
"Reading The Covenant of Water I felt as if I'd been plunged into an atmosphere thicker than air, or as if I was swimming in a sea of stories, each more intense and unforgettable than the last."

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Awards
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel nominee (2004) : Caramelo


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