Joaquín Badajoz

Joaquín Badajoz
Cuban-American writer, editor, translator and journalist

Born 2 August 1972
Pinar del Río, Cuba
Occupation Writer, Journalist, Editor and Translator
Nationality Cuban–American
Genre Poetry, fiction, art criticism, essay
Notable works Passar Páxaros/ Casa Obscura, aldea sumergida; Excursión de Thor a Utgard (essay); El cine en español en los Estados Unidos (in collaboration with filmmaker and writer Roberto Fandiño); España regurgitada (essay).

Cuban-American Writer, Editor and Journalist.[1][2] Member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE).[3] Member of the editorial board Glosas (ANLE), RANLE (ANLE) and OtroLunes (Revista Hispanoamericana de Cultura. Berlin/Madrid). He has been a member of the boards of Cuadernos de ALDEEU (Spanish Professionals in America), Vitral —recipient of prestigious Prince Claus Award 1999[4]—, among others. Coauthor of the "Encyclopedia of Spanish in the United States" (Enciclopedia del Español en los Estados Unidos, Madrid: Instituto Cervantes, Santillana, 2008); "Hablando (bien) se entiende la gente /Speaking Well Makes the World Go 'Round" (Spanish Edition), Aguilar; 1 edition (February 8, 2010); "Diccionario de Americanismos /Dictionary of Standarized Latin American Vocabulary" (Spanish Edition), Alfaguara (Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española) 1st edition (April 17, 2010); "The School of Night. Drawings by Arturo Rodriguez" (New York. Island Project, 2014). He is the author of "Passar Páxaros/ Casa Obscura, aldea sumergida" (ANLE/Hypermedia, 2014). Badajoz has an extensive editorial experience working as Managing Editor for the Spanish versions of Men's Health and Prevention, and also as Executive Editor of Cosmopolitan, under a partnership with Editorial Televisa (aka Televisa Publishing + Digital), the world's largest Spanish language publisher and a leader in the production, representation and distribution fields in Latin America as well as among the U.S Hispanic market. He is a columnist art critic for The Miami Herald, front page editor of Yahoo and founder and owner of SpicandProud (inactive) and Hypermedia Americas (a multimedia production company based in Miami).

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  1. ↑ List of Cuban-American Writers.
  2. ↑ Miami Book Fair International Authors.
  3. ↑ Member Profile at Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española.
  4. ↑ The arts and the media are platforms for debate, analysing and criticising the contexts in which they play their part. Artists and intellectuals express their views on the political, religious, social and cultural circumstances in which they live and work. Their frank comments often meet with social resistance or result in cultural exclusion or state oppression. In response, they seek refuge; they create and inhabit 'spaces of freedom'. They establish alternative platforms in different - but mostly interlinked - places or spaces, each presenting a way of avoiding the restrictions or transcending the repercussions. The three alternatives identified by the Fund can be characterised as exile, margins or defiance. In other words: giving ground, going underground or taking up the challenge above ground. The 1999 Principal Award goes to three persons who have paved the way for free social and cultural comment. They represent the spaces which are characterised as 'exile', 'margins' en 'the large-scale public platform' respectively: Mohamed Fellag (comedian), Vitral (cultural magazine) and Al-Jazeera (television channel).
  5. ↑ 2013 International Latino Book Awards list of Winners
  6. ↑ "The 2013 International Latino Book Awards recognized the first Border Town book with first place in the category of “Best Youth Latino Focused Chapter Book,’ and the Spanish editions, ‘Pueblo fronterizo #1: Cruzar el límite’, earned second place in the same category.” Cummings, Amy, and Cano, Tiffany. Magical Realist Moments in Malín Alegría’s Border Town Series. Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, 2014.

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