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Luis Negrón
Puerto Rican writer
Luis Negrón (born 1970 in Guayama, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican writer.
Negrón originally studied journalism, which he said taught him how to write and gave him confidence.[1] He lives in Santurce, a barrio in San Juan, and works in a bookstore.[1]
His debut short story collection, Mundo Cruel, was published in 2010 and has seen five printings in Spanish. The stories in the book focus on gay life in Santurce.[2][3] An English translation by Suzanne Jill Levine was published by Seven Stories Press in 2013,[4] and won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction at the 26th Lambda Literary Awards in 2014.[5]
He was also coeditor, with David Caleb Acevedo and Moisés Agosto, of Los otros cuerpos, an anthology of writing by LGBT Puerto Ricans.[6][7] As of 2014, Negrón was working a novel, memoir, and play.[8]