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Manrique, Jaime Jaime Manrique was born in Colombia. His first book of poems received his country’s National Book Award. He is the author of four novels: Our Lives Are the Rivers, Twilight at the Equator, Latin Moon in Manhattan, and Colombian Gold-- translated into many languages. He is also the author of the volumes of poems My Night with Federico García Lorca; Tarzan, My Body, Christopher Columbus; Sor Juana’s Love Poems, co-translated with Joan Larkin; and the memoir Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me. His reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Salon.com , Washington Post Book World, BOMB, and many other publications. Among his honors are grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. He worked as an associate professor in the M.F.A. program in writing at Columbia University from 2002 to the present. |
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