biography
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Sánchez, Luis Rafael
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| male
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| lived:
| (1936– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Humacao, Puerto Rico, USA. Prolific essayist, playwright, and novelist, he was the Puerto Rican writer with the greatest international reputation in the second half of the 20th-c. In 1963 he won the Paris-based review Cuadernos Award for the best Puerto Rican short story published that year, and in 1979 was awarded a Guggenheim. His 1976 novel, La guaracha del Macho Camacho (trans Macho Camacho's Beat ), in which characters, many caught in a monstrous traffic jam, speculate on life in vivid Puerto Rican vernacular, was a best-seller both in Spanish and English. |
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