Occupation short stories Name Luis Negron Nationality Puerto Rican Role Writer | Period 2000s-present Books Mundo Cruel Notable works Mundo Cruel | |
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Awards Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men\'s Fiction | ||
Luis negr n 2014 lambda literary award finalist
Luis Negrón (born 1970 in Guayama, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican writer.
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His debut short story collection, Mundo Cruel, was published in 2010 and has seen five printings in Spanish. The stories in the book focus on gay life in Santurce, a barrio in San Juan. An English translation by Suzanne Jill Levine was published by Seven Stories Press in 2013, and won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction at the 26th Lambda Literary Awards in 2014.
He was also coeditor, with David Caleb Acevedo and Moisés Agosto, of Los otros cuerpos, an anthology of writing by LGBT Puerto Ricans.
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