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Encyclopedia > Achy Obejas

Achy Obejas (born 1956 in Havana, Cuba) is an American writer and journalist living in Chicago, Illinois. After leaving Cuba at the age of six, she lived in Michigan City, Indiana until she moved to Chicago in 1979. Since 1991, she has been a journalist with the Chicago Tribune, working as a culture writer. She was the Springer Lecturer in Creative Writing (2003-2005) at the University of Chicago, as well as an advisor for the online prose magazine, Otium. 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Havana (Spanish in full: La Habana, formerly named San Cristóbal de La Habana; UN/LOCODE: CU HAV) is the capital of Cuba and of one of the 14 provinces of Cuba, the one named Ciudad de La Habana), with a population of more than 2. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ... Michigan City is a city located in LaPorte County, Indiana, approximately 50 miles east of Chicago, Illinois and 40 miles west of South Bend, Indiana. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois. ... The word culture, from the Latin colo, -ere, with its root meaning to cultivate, generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. ... The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ... Otium is an online literary magazine initiated by Achy Obejas and a group of students from the University of Chicago. ...


As of 2006, she is the Sor Juana visiting writer at DePaul University. DePaul University is a private institution of higher education and research in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Founded by the Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th century French priest, Saint Vincent de Paul. ...


Selected works

  • Days of Awe (2001)
  • Memory Mambo (1996)
  • We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? (1994)

External links

  • Official site

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VG: Artist Biography: Obejas, Achy (651 words)
Achy Obejas was born in 1956 in Havana, Cuba, a city that she left six years later when she came to the United States with her parents after the Cuban revolution.
At the age of thirty-nine, Obejas returned to the island of her birth "for a brief visit and was seduced by a million things"(Shapiro 4).
As an activist and writer, Obejas continues to explore her Cuban identity and experience, earning her an important place in the literature of the United States.
Famous journalist features her creative works - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper (648 words)
For Achy Obejas, the path was clear from the start: Journalism would pay the bills until her art — deeply evocative stories that speak to a different sort of truth — could stand on its own.
Obejas, who was born in Havana in 1956 and came to the U.S. by boat six years later, has walked a parallel path to literary success.
Obejas will read an excerpt from "Days of Awe" — an examination of tensions between public and private identities in a Jewish community in Cuba — as well as a new short story, "Tower of the Antilles," which she will perform with two of her UH students.
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