Mayra Santos-Febres

Mayra Santos-Febres
Mayra Santos-Febres
Born 1966 Carolina, Puerto Rico

Notable award(s) Guggenheim Fellowship, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award [1]

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Mayra Santos-Febres (born 1966) is a Puerto Rican author, poet, novelist, professor of literature, and literary critic who has garnered fame at home and abroad. One of her most famous books is Sirena Selena vestida de pena (published in English as Sirena Selena), in which she describes the life of a teenaged homosexual male drag queen who works in the streets and has a talent for singing boleros.[2][3] Santos-Febres holds an M.A. and Ph.D. (1991) from Cornell University. Her work has been translated into French, English, German, and Italian, and is taught in many universities in the United States. Santos-Febres currently teaches at the University of Puerto Rico, Ro Piedras Campus. Her more recent publications include a collection of essays called Sobre piel y papel and also a novel about Isabel la Negra titled Nuestra Seora de la Noche (Our Lady of the Night).[4]

Works
Anamu y manigua (1990) Pez de vidrio (1994) (Winner of the Juan Rulfo Award) Urban Oracles (1997) Sirena Selena vestida de pena (2000) (translated as Sirena Selena, 2000) Tercer mundo (2000) Cualquier mircoles soy tuya (2002) (translated as Any Wednesday, I'm Yours, 2005) Sobre piel y papel (2005) Boat People (2005) Nuestra Seora de la Noche (2006) (translated as Our Lady of the Night, 2009) Fe en disfraz (2009) Tratado de Medicina Natural para Hombres Melanclicos (2011)

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References
[1] http:/ / mayrasantosfebres. blogspot. com/ [2] Santos-Febres, Mayra. Sirena Selena: A Novel. Trans. from the Spanish by Stephen A. Lytle. New York: Picador, 2001. ISBN 0312263929 [3] Rangelova, Radost. "Nationalism, States of Exception, and Caribbean Identities in Sirena Selena vestida de pena and ' Loca la de la locura. ' " (http:/ / redalyc. uaemex. mx/ redalyc/ pdf/ 377/ 37719104. pdf) CENTRO Journal 19, no. 1 (2007): 74-88. [4] Santos-Febres, Mayra. Our Lady of the Night. Trans. from the Spanish by Ernesto Mestre-Reed. New York: Harper Perennial, 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-173130-3

External links
Interview with the Author (http://www.barcelonareview.com/17/s_ent_msf.htm) (Spanish) Mayra Santos-Febres's Blog (http://mayrasantosfebres.blogspot.com/)

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