Título: Giannina Braschi
Seção: Literary influences
Background: Giannina Braschi (born February 5, 1953) is a Puerto Rican writer. She is credited with writing the first Spanglish novel Yo-Yo Boing! (1998), the post-modern poetry trilogy Empire of Dreams (Yale, 1994) and the philosophical fiction United States of Banana (AmazonCrossing, 2011), which chronicles the Latin American immigrants' experiences in the United States. "

Conteúdo: In the 1970s, Giannina Braschi was a student of literature in Madrid, Rome, Paris and London, before she settled in New York City. She obtained a PhD in Hispanic Literatures (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1980) and has taught at Rutgers University, City University of New York, and Colgate University, where she served as a Distinguished Chair of Creative Writing (1997). She was a foreign correspondent for Grazie magazine (2001-2002).  As an adolescent in San Juan, Giannina Braschi ranked first place in the U.S. Tennis Association's national tournament in Puerto Rico, becoming the youngest female tennis player to win the Women's Division (1966) on the island. Her father Euripides ("Pilo") Braschi was also a tennis champion. She was also a founding member of the San Juan Children's Choir ("Coro de ninos de San Juan") under music director Evy Lucio and a fashion model during her teen years.  In the 1980s, Braschi's early writings were scholarly in nature and focused on the titans of the Spanish Golden Age, as well as the vanguard poets of Latin America and Spain. She published a book on the Romantic poet Gustavo Adolfo Becquer and essays on Cervantes, Garcilaso, Cesar Vallejo, Juan Ramon Jimenez and Federico Garcia Lorca. She later became obsessed with the dramatic and philosophical works of French, German, Polish, Irish, and Russian authors. Though categorized as novels, her later mixed-genre works are experimental in style and format and celebratory of foreign infl

user: did she study literature in college?

assistant: Giannina Braschi was a student of literature

user: Did she study literature anywhere?

assistant: Madrid, Rome, Paris and London,

user: Was she influenced by other poets?

assistant: considers herself "more French than Beckett, Picasso and Gertrude Stein", and

user: Was her only profession writing?

assistant: ranked first place in the U.S. Tennis Association's national tournament in Puerto Rico,

user: When did she play tennis?

assistant: becoming the youngest female tennis player to win the Women's Division (1966) on the island.

user: Did she do anything else besides tennis and writing?

assistant: She was a foreign correspondent

user: for who?

assistant: Grazie magazine (2001-2002).

user: did she write anything during this time?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: What is her style of writing?

assistant: Braschi's early writings were scholarly in nature

user: anything else interesting?

assistant: Braschi's early writings were scholarly in nature and focused on the titans of the Spanish Golden Age,

user: What else has influenced her?

assistant: She published a book on the Romantic poet Gustavo Adolfo Becquer and essays on Cervantes, Garcilaso, Cesar Vallejo, Juan Ramon Jimenez and Federico Garcia Lorca.