The Most Famous
WRITERS from Puerto Rico
This page contains a list of the greatest Puerto Rican Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 5,755 Writers, 1 of which were born in Puerto Rico. This makes Puerto Rico the birth place of the 142nd most number of Writers behind Lesotho and French Polynesia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Puerto Rican Writers of all time. This list of famous Puerto Rican Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Giannina Braschi (1953 - )
With an HPI of 43.23, Giannina Braschi is the most famous Puerto Rican Writer. Her biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
Giannina Braschi (born February 5, 1953) is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, dramatist, and scholar. Her notable works include Empire of Dreams (1988), Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) and United States of Banana (2011). Braschi writes cross-genre literature and political philosophy in Spanish, Spanglish, and English. Her work is a hybrid of poetry, metafiction, postdramatic theatre, memoir, manifesto, and political philosophy. Her writings explore the enculturation journey of Hispanic immigrants, and dramatize the three main political options of Puerto Rico: independence, colony, and state.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as writers born between 1953 and 1953. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living writers include Giannina Braschi.
