{"id":116579,"date":"2022-04-29T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-giannina-braschi-wins-national-award-from-north-american-academy-of-the-spanish-language\/"},"modified":"2022-04-29T07:17:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T11:17:00","slug":"english-giannina-braschi-wins-national-award-from-north-american-academy-of-the-spanish-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/english-giannina-braschi-wins-national-award-from-north-american-academy-of-the-spanish-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannina Braschi Wins National Award from North American Academy of the Spanish Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">NEW YORK<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">April 29, 2022<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/\u00a0&#8212; The North American Academy of the Spanish Language has bestowed its 2022 <i><span class=\"xn-person\">Enrique Anderson Imbert<\/span> Award<\/i> upon the renowned Puerto Rican writer <span class=\"xn-person\">Giannina Braschi<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpga134left\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"width: 100%; text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpga134left\" title=\"Puerto Rican Author Giannina Braschi Wins National Award from North American Academy of the Spanish Language\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1807540\/GIANNINA_BRASCHI_by_Laurent_Eli_Badessi.jpg\" alt=\"Puerto Rican Author Giannina Braschi Wins National Award from North American Academy of the Spanish Language\" align=\"middle\"\/><\/div>\n<p>This national award recognizes those who have made sustained and significant contributions to the knowledge and dissemination of the Spanish language and Hispanic cultures in <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The jury unanimously selected <span class=\"xn-person\">Giannina Braschi<\/span> whose rich and bountiful career defies any simplifying classification,&#8221; announced <span class=\"xn-person\">Carlos E. Paldao<\/span>, director of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language. &#8220;Her prolific career, which extends from groundbreaking research on Hispanic classics to her spectacular work as a renowned and award-winning creator, places her among the most innovative and influential voices of Hispanic letters in <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span>. Braschi contributes to the dissemination of Hispanic culture and literature from the most avant-garde and invigorating perspective. She has left her imprint, not only on the Spanish but on the English-speaking world as well, given the prominence that some of her works have had in striking translations. Her writing reflects the richness of language taken to new linguistic and narrative heights by masterfully interweaving literary genres and linguistic explorations, in keeping with new forms of expression, of which she is a pioneer,&#8221; Paldao added.<\/p>\n<p>Braschi expressed her elation at winning the academy&#8217;s highest honor. &#8220;It is particularly meaningful for me to receive this wonderful news on the anniversary of Cervantes&#8217; life. My literary career begins with Cervantes. When I was 22 years old, I wrote an essay entitled &#8216;Five Fleeting Characters on <span class=\"xn-person\">Don Quixote&#8217;s<\/span> Path&#8221; which centers on the Quixotic ideals: love, poetry, chivalry, liberty, and justice,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;The essay begins like this: &#8216;Don Quixote-Alonso Quijano, an old man: a dual creature with a cast that imprisons an intimate nucleus, a jingle bell, always restless and full of life.&#8217; I consider this essay the beginning of my work. Now I am finishing a book entitled <i>Putinoika<\/i>, a term I&#8217;ve coined to define the era of Putin and Trump. We once had Perestroika, and now we have Putinoika. We once had Angels in America, as <span class=\"xn-person\">Tony Kushner<\/span> said, and now we have Putinas in America. Whether I write in Spanish, Spanglish, or English, and no matter the genre, I always have these Quixotic ideals in my heart and in my mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With a Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures from the <span class=\"xn-org\">State University of New York<\/span>, she taught at <span class=\"xn-org\">Rutgers University<\/span>, the <span class=\"xn-org\">City University of New York<\/span>, and <span class=\"xn-org\">Colgate University<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Her work represents an essential contribution to the advancement, strengthening, and expansion of the Spanish language and Hispanic cultures in <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span>, in addition to being highly innovative and of extraordinary intellectual value. She occupies a prominent place among Latin American intellectuals for her critical stance against American colonialism and for alternating the use of Spanish, Spanglish, and English in her work.<\/p>\n<p>An amalgam of poetry, theater, and philosophy, Braschi&#8217;s best-known titles include <i>Empire of Dreams<\/i> (1988), about her socio-political, cultural, and linguistic relationship with <span class=\"xn-location\">New York City<\/span>; <i><span class=\"xn-person\">Yo-Yo Boing<\/span>!<\/i> (1998), a work written in Spanglish that delves into such themes as racism, colonialism, and domestic violence; and <i><span class=\"xn-location\">United States<\/span> of Banana<\/i> (2011), a geopolitical tragicomedy that satirizes the fall of the American empire and the liberation of <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Her publications have garnished considerable national and pan-Hispanic prominence and are widely taught in colleges and universities internationally. She is the subject of an extensive and ever-expanding critical bibliography, including a recent anthology edited by <span class=\"xn-person\">Frederick Luis Aldama<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">Tess O&#8217;Dwyer<\/span>, <i>Poets, Philosophers, Lovers. On the Writings of <span class=\"xn-person\">Giannina Braschi<\/span><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Braschi&#8217;s work has inspired countless cultural adaptations, from the musical compositions of Puerto Rican composer <span class=\"xn-person\">Gabriel Bouche Caro<\/span> to the graphic novel version of <i><span class=\"xn-location\">United States<\/span> of Banana<\/i> by Swedish cartoonist <span class=\"xn-person\">Joakim Lindengren<\/span>. She recently won the <i>Cambiemos<\/i> Award from the Spanish magazine <i>Cambio 16<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decision of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language to select <span class=\"xn-person\">Giannina Braschi<\/span> for the 2022 Enrique Anderson Imbert Award not only augments the international recognition of this distinguished Puerto Rican writer, but also marks a milestone in pan-Hispanic openness to works that question\u2014with masterful precision and without ideological clich\u00e9s\u2014the boundaries between genres and languages, articulating a polyphonic, philosophical, and poetic vision of the tragicomedy of postmodern globalism,&#8221; noted Jos\u00e9 <span class=\"xn-person\">Luis Vega<\/span>, director of the Puerto Rican Academy of the Spanish Language. &#8220;Cervantes, whose memory is revered this week, would have certainly concurred with the jury&#8217;s decision. Congratulations, <span class=\"xn-person\">Giannina Braschi<\/span>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Contact: ANLE Communications: Daniel Fern\u00e1ndez (<a href=\"mailto:dfernandez@anle.us\" rel=\"nofollow\">dfernandez@anle.us<\/a>), ANLE Board Secretary: <span class=\"xn-person\">Jorge I. 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