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Ana Castillo

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Novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer

United StatesWritersBorn 1953 · age 73
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Ana Castillo is a Chicana novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, editor, playwright, translator and independent scholar.

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Ana Castillo
said · 2021
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Why is what is natural to women often seen as negative?

from "A Blessing" in My Book of the Dead (2021)

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Ana Castillo
said · May 2016
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The issue of mass incarceration, the multi-billion-dollar industry that prisons have become in this country, is important to talk about.

Interview with Vice (May 2016)

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Ana Castillo
said · May 2016
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I take every risk in writing that I can, because I don't write just to entertain people or make money.

Interview with Vice (May 2016)

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Awards 2

2015Lambda Literary Award
1987American Book Awards

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Ana Castillo is a Chicana novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, editor, playwright, translator and independent scholar. Considered one of the leading voices in Chicana experience, Castillo is most known for her experimental style as a Latina novelist and for her intervention in Chicana feminism known as Xicanisma.

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United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
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living
Dates
Born 1953 · age 73
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13 languages

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