Áurea María Sotomayor-Miletti Receives Prestigious International Literary Award


Áurea María Sotomayor-Miletti in a dark shirt.

Áurea María Sotomayor-Miletti, professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, received the prestigious Casa de las Américas Prize in the essay category. 

Established in 1959, the award is considered the oldest and most coveted prize in literature in Latin America—much like the Pulitzer Prize in the U.S., according to Sotomayor-Miletti.

Sotomayor-Miletti received the literary award for her work titled “Apalabrarse en la desposesión (Ley, arte y Multitud en el Caribe Insular).” She accepted her award earlier this year in Havana, Cuba.