Achy Obejas
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| Achy Obejas | |
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| Born | 1956 Havana, Cuba |
| Occupation | novelist, journalist |
| Notable work(s) | Days of Awe |
| Notable award(s) | Pulitzer (journalism); Lambda Literary Awards (x2) |
Achy Obejas (born 1956 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-American writer and journalist living in Chicago, Illinois. After leaving Cuba at the age of six, she lived in Michigan City, Indiana until she moved to Chicago in 1979. Since 1991, she has been a journalist with the Chicago Tribune, working as a culture writer. She was the Springer Lecturer in Creative Writing (2003-2005) at the University of Chicago, as well as an advisor for the online prose magazine, Otium.
In fall of 2005, she served as the Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Hawai'i.
As of 2006, she is the Sor Juana visiting writer at DePaul University.
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[edit] Selected works
- Days of Awe (2001)
- Memory Mambo (1996)
- We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? (1994)
[edit] Awards and honors
From her website (March 2008):
During her career, Achy has received a Pulitzer for a Tribune team investigation, the Studs Terkel Journalism Prize, several Peter Lisagor journalism honors, two Lambda Literary Awards, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry, and residencies at Yaddo, Ragdale and the Virginia Center for the Arts, among other honors.
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