![]() In 1995 Cisneros was awarded the prestigious MacArthur. Her lyrical, realistic work blends aspects of 'high' and popular culture. ![]() ![]() About the Author Sandra Cisneros is a novelist, poet, short story writer, and essayist whose work gives voice to working-class Latino and Latina life in America. Cisneros is a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico and makes her living by her pen. The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros. Her most recent book, Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo, a story in English and Spanish, will be published in September 2021. Cisneros is the author of two novels, The House on Mango Street and Caramelo a collection of short stories, Woman Hollering Creek two books of poetry, My Wicked Wicked Ways and Loose Woman a children’s book, Hairs/Pelitos a selected anthology of her own work, Vintage Cisneros with Ester Hernández, Have You Seen Marie?, a fable for adults A House of My Own, a memoir and Puro Amor, a bilingual story that she also illustrated. ![]() Internationally acclaimed for her poetry and fiction, which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages, she is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Medal of the Arts, the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation. Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954. ![]()
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