

“I truly don’t feel that I’ve arrived at where I want to be yet. In a telephone interview with The Times, Cisneros said she was surprised to receive the award from the literary foundation PEN America. Sandra Cisneros, the Mexican American novelist whose books “The House on Mango Street” and “Woman Hollering Creek” are widely considered contemporary classics of American literature, has won the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.Ĭisneros is the third author to win the annual award, after Syrian poet Adonis in 2017 and Irish novelist Edna O’Brien in 2018.
