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Pisces
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Judith Ortiz Cofer
Judith Ortiz Cofer is a Puerto Rican American author. His award-winning and critically acclaimed work spans a wide range of literary genres, including poetry, short stories, autobiography, essays, and youth novels. Ortiz Cofer is Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing for Regents and Franklin at the University of Georgia, where she has been teaching undergraduate and graduate creative writing seminars for 26 years. In 2010, Ortiz Cofer was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, and in 2013, she won the 2014 Southeast University Conference Excellence Award. Ortiz Cofer comes from a family of storytellers. and draws a lot from her personal experiences as a Puerto Rican American. In his work, Ortiz Cofer offers a poetic perspective on the interference between memory and imagination. Writing in a variety of genres, she studies issues of women, Latin culture and South America.
BornJudith Ortiz, February 24, 1952, Hormigueros, Puerto Rico
DiedDecember 29, 2016, Louisville, Georgia
OccupationWriter, Professor at the University of Georgia
NationalityPuerto Rican
GenrePoetry, short stories, autobiography, essays, young adult novels
Notable worksA Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood

About Judith Ortiz Cofer

Essayist Judith Ortiz Cofer was born on February 24, 1952 in Puerto Rico, United States (She's 72 years old now).

She is a Puerto Rican short story writer, essayist, young adult novelist, and poet who is best known for her creative nonfiction works like The Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood, which she published in 1990. The Latin Deli and The Line of the Sun are two of her other outstanding pieces.

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Judith Ortiz Cofer before becoming famous

Judith Ortiz Cofer was born in the Zodiac sign Pisces (The Fish), and 1952 is also the year of Dragon (龍) in the Chinese Zodiac.

Before coming to Atlanta, Georgia during her high school years, she frequently traveled between Puerto Rico and New Jersey. She went on to Augusta College and earned a Bachelor's degree in English.

Achievement of Judith Ortiz Cofer

Florida Atlantic University awarded her a master's degree in English.

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Her writing style was based on oral narration and was influenced by her Puerto Rican grandmother's exceptional storytelling abilities.

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Her tale, The Latin Deli, was awarded the Novelist O. Henry Prize in 1994. Cofer was the first Hispanic novelist to be honored in this way.

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