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Giannina Braschi

1953 - Today

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Giannina Braschi (born February 5, 1953) is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, dramatist, and scholar. Her notable works include Empire of Dreams (1988), Yo-Yo Boing! (1998), United States of Banana (2011), and Putinoika (2024). Braschi writes cross-genre literature and political philosophy in Spanish, Spanglish, and English. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giannina Braschi is the 5,899th most popular writer (up from 5,955th in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Puerto Rico (down from 35th in 2019) and the most popular Puerto Rican Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Giannina Braschi ranks 5,899 out of 7,302Before her are Francisco Acuña de Figueroa, Sun Axelsson, Lucía Etxebarría, Stefan Andres, Thierry Meyssan, and Paula Yates. After her are Åsne Seierstad, Olivia Manning, Winston Churchill, Patrick Rambaud, Daniel Kehlmann, and Domiziana Giordano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Giannina Braschi ranks 455Before her are Dina Rubina, M. K. Stalin, Stuart Baxter, Bernt Johansson, Mehdi Cerbah, and Sharon Robinson. After her are Vlastimil Petržela, Katsuya Okada, Dimitris Avramopoulos, Pedro Ignacio Wolcan Olano, John Edwards, and Paco Herrera.

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In Puerto Rico

Among people born in Puerto Rico, Giannina Braschi ranks 37 out of 77Before her are Osvaldo Ríos (1960), Luis Muñoz Marín (1898), Sila María Calderón (1942), Tego Calderón (1972), Carly Colón (1979), and Gigi Fernández (1964). After her are Bill Hobbs (1949), Gina Lynn (1974), Pedro Pierluisi (1959), Héctor Camacho (1962), Holly Woodlawn (1946), and Olga Tañón (1967).

Among WRITERS In Puerto Rico

Among writers born in Puerto Rico, Giannina Braschi ranks 1