Ruth Behar
Ruth Behar was born in Havana, Cuba and grew up in New York. She is a cultural anthropologist and an award-winning writer whose work includes academic studies as well as poetry, memoir, and literary fiction. She has lived in Spain and Mexico and returns often to Cuba to build bridges around culture and art. She writes about her journeys in her ethnographies, which include An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba, Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in Between Journeys, and the 25th anniversary edition of her classic book, The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart. Her bilingual poetry appears in Everything I Kept/Todo lo que guardé. Behar won the Pura Belpré Author Medal for her debut middle grade novel, Lucky Broken Girl, and her second novel, Letters from Cuba, is a Sydney Taylor Notable Book and received an International Latino Book Award. Behar recently published a picture book, Tía Fortuna’s New Home/El nuevo hogar de Tía Fortuna, a Cuban Sephardic story about intergenerational memory. Her passion for Sephardic stories has been expressed in many genres, including a documentary, Adio Kerida, about the Sephardic Jews of Cuba, which has been shown in film festivals around the world. She has received a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was named a “Great Immigrant” by the Carnegie Corporation. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and is the James W. Fernandez Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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