It’s the birthday of Luis López Nieves (books by this author) born in San Juan, Puerto Rico (1950). He’s been called “the great novelist of Puerto Rico” by a Colombian newspaper, “the first novelist of Puerto Rico” by one of Spain’s papers, and a Chilean said that “he has created urban legends that Puerto Ricans assume as historical truths.” His books The True Death of Juan Ponce de León (2000) and Voltaire’s Heart (2005) each won the National Literature Prize, Puerto Rico’s highest literary award.
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“Jan. 17, 2017: birthday: Luis López Nieves”, Garrison Keillor, Writer’s Almanac, Estados Unidos, 17 enero 2017, writersalmanac.org.
