Xavier Navarro Aquino

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Xavier Navarro Aquino


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Xavier Navarro Aquino was born and raised in Puerto Rico. Named a "Writer to Watch" by Publishers Weekly, he is the author of the novel, Velorio out from HarperCollins and in Spanish from HarperCollins Español. His stories have appeared in The Sewanee Review, Prairie Schooner, The Massachusetts Review, Tin House, McSweeney’s, and Guernica, among others. He has been awarded scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a MacDowell Fellowship, and an American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellowship at Dartmouth College. He holds an M.A. in English Caribbean Studies from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Currently, ...more

Average rating: 3.42 · 737 ratings · 165 reviews · 4 distinct worksSimilar authors
Velorio

3.42 avg rating — 717 ratings — published 2022 — 13 editions
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“It is time for you to return to God, goliflón. It is time we send you off because you are a puppet stuffed and made to guard, that is your use".”
Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio

“I wish the ocean learned to speak its terrors to me, the way introductions speak of repressed ideas and meaning. the ocean, how she consumes desire and sets me dreaming, like flame and fire, burning darkness away until you learn to speak our names. She teaches me to cry, and with my tears, I drown the earth. She teaches me to cry and with my tears I drown the earth.”
Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio

“Everyone now links hands and sways from side to side like the waves kissing the shore.”
Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio

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