Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and This Is How You Lose Her and into English such contemporary Latin American writers as Rita Indiana, F. G. Haghenbeck, and Wendy Guerra. She is the recipient of a USA Ford Fellowship, a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellowship, a team Pulitzer Prize for the series “Gateway to Gridlock” while at the Tribune , a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry, the Studs Terkel Journalism Award, and a Cintas Foundation Fellowship. She is currently the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College in Oakland, California.
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Copyright © 2008 Carlos Velázquez
Translation copyright © 2015 Achy Obejas
First published in Spanish as La Biblia Vaquera by
Editorial Sexto Piso, Mexico City, 2011
Digital edition published by Restless Books, 2016
This edition published by Restless Books, 2016
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