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Mayra Santos-Febres

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Mayra Santos-Febres


Born
in Carolina, Puerto Rico
January 01, 1966

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Mayra Santos-Febres is a Puerto Rican author, poet, novelist, professor of literature, essayist, and literary critic and author of children's books. Her work focuses on themes of diaspora identity, female sexuality, the erotic, gender fluidity, desire, and power. ...more

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Su majestad, el título

—Mis títulos aparecen en los sueños —dice la escritora puertorriqueña Mayra Santos-Febres—. Luego lo voy puliendo. Cuando ya el texto está completo, me doy unas semanas para leerlo y meditar acerca del título. Luego le doy el manuscrito a cuatro o cinco lectores, junto a varias opciones de títulos. Escojo el más adecuado… y la editorial me lo cambia al final. Artículo completo aquí: http://cultura Read more of this blog post »
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Published on July 20, 2013 11:29
Average rating: 3.86 · 2,478 ratings · 288 reviews · 45 distinct worksSimilar authors
Sirena Selena

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3.87 avg rating — 790 ratings — published 2000 — 25 editions
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Fe en disfraz

3.68 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions
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Our Lady of the Night

3.64 avg rating — 261 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions
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Any Wednesday I'm Yours

3.57 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 2002 — 12 editions
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La amante de Gardel

3.98 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions
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Antes que llegue la luz

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San Juan Noir

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Boat People

4.38 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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Pez de vidrio

4.19 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
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El baile de mi vida

3.71 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2012
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“You laugh as you sing about dying, you drug yourself up, but you can still see clearly, and you die as you break into a fit of laughter, because asi es la vida in this soup of islands stewed in hunger and the desire to be someone else.”
Mayra Santos-Febres, Sirena Selena

“There are many ways to rule, many things required to be un hombre or to be una mujere, for each person can decide for himself. Sometimes you can even be both. Without having to choose one or the other”
Mayra Santos-Febres, Sirena Selena
tags: power, rule

“El saber fue, por mucho tiempo, nuestra mayor y más compartida pasión.”
Mayra Santos-Febres, Fe en disfraz

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