Janette Becerra Explained

Janette Becerra
Birth Place:Caguas, Puerto Rico
Nationality:Puerto Rico

Janette Becerra (Caguas, Puerto Rico, 1965) is a Puerto Rican poet, writer, teacher and literary critic. She obtained an MA in comparative literature and a Ph.D. in Spanish literature at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. She has been a professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey since 2000.

In 2011 she published a collection of stories titled Doce versiones de soledad ("Twelve versions of loneliness") (Ediciones Callejón), which received the First Prize of the PEN Club of Puerto Rico and the Second prize in the contest of the Institute of Puerto Rican Literature in 2012.[1] Her work has been included in Anthology of Twentieth-Century Puerto Rican Literature (Puerto Rico, 2004), Perversions from Paradise (Spain, 2005), The faces of the hydra (Puerto Rico, 2008), Poetry of Puerto Rico: five decades (Venezuela, 2009), The Americas (Portugal, 2010), and In the Eye of the Hurricane (Editorial Norma, 2011).[2]

She has published poetry under the penname,“S. Tornasol.”

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Libros Premiados - Premios Pen Club 2011. Spanish. Pen Club de Puerto Rico Internacional at Blogspot.
  2. Web site: Leadership Events - Puerto Rico: una literatura en diálogo con el mundo. Americas Society / Council of the Americas. 2013. Spanish.
  3. News: Premio a Janette Becerra. El Nuevo Día. December 13, 2013. Spanish.
  4. News: Janette Becerra gana el VI Premio Barco de Vapor de Puerto Rico. 20 July 2015. EFE New Service. Emol. December 12, 2012. Spanish.
  5. News: La poesía es reina. 20 July 2015. El Nuevo Dia. June 3, 2011. Spanish.
  6. Web site: 2012-12-13 . Janette Becerra gana el VI Premio Literatura Infantil El Barco de Vapor de Puerto Rico . 2024-04-30 . Grupo SM . es.