Giannina Braschi is “one of the most revolutionary voices in Latin America” declared PEN America. She is the iconic Puerto Rican author of the epic poem El imperio de los sueños, the classic Spanglish novel Yo-Yo Boing!, and the geopolitical tragicomedy Estados Unidos de Banana on the collapse of the American empire and the liberation of Puerto Rico, inspired by Calderon de la Barca’s Life is Dream. Her magnus opus PUTINOIKA is a multi-genre epic, offering a biting and hilarious denunciation of Trump’s America, based of Euripides’ Bacchae. The U.S. Library of Congress calls Giannina Braschi “cutting-edge, influential, and revolutionary.” Photos below by Laurent Elie Badessi.
