Biography Of Sandra Cisneros
Real Name
Sandra Cisneros
Profession
Essayists, Novelists
Famous as
Writer
Nationality
American
Personal Life of Sandra Cisneros
Born on
20 December 1954
Birthday
20th December
Age
62 Years
Sun Sign
Sagittarius
Born in
Chicago
Grouping of People
Hispanic Authors, Hispanic Women
City
Illinois
Family Background of Sandra Cisneros
Father
Alfredo Cisneros de Moral
Mother
Elvira Cordero Anguiano
Education
Josephinum Academy, Loyola University Chicago, University of Iowa
Awards
1985 - American Book Awards - The House on Mango Street 1995 - MacArthur Fellowship - Fiction 1993 - Anisfield-Wolf Book Award - Woman Hollering Creek 1991 - Lannan Literary Award - Fiction
Personal Fact of Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros is an American writer best known for her first novel 'The House on Mango Street' in which a young Latina woman comes of age in Chicago. She is acknowledged as a pioneer in her literary field, as she is the first female Mexican-American writer to have her work published by a mainstream publisher. Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages.
During graduation, she realised that she had no nice memory of growing up to write about, like her peers. All she could remember was constantly shifting between Mexico and US, growing up with six brothers and a misogynist father, and feeling alone. But, rather than being afraid, she decided to pen these experiences and bared her tale of limited opportunities and a restricted lifestyle.
When it came to novel writing, she worked on the formation of the Chicana identity, exploring the challenges of being caught between Mexican and Anglo-American cultures, facing the misogynist attitude present in both these cultures, and poverty. While writing Cisneros alternates between first person, third person, and stream-of-consciousness narrative modes, and ranges from brief impressionistic vignettes to longer event-driven stories, and from highly poetic language to brutally frank language. Generally critiquing the social norms, she was amazed by the recognition she received beyond the Chicano and Latino communities.
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