Elena Castedo

Born in Barcelona, Spain, Elena Castedo moved to Chile with her family when she was just a child. Castedo, who has lived on four of the five continents, earned her Master of Arts degree from the University of California at Los Angeles, before going on to Harvard University for her Ph.D. A former editor of The Inter-American Review of Bibliography, Castedo is best known for writing the nationally acclaimed novel, Paradise. Nominated for the 1990 National Book Award, Paradise is a coming-of-age story seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old girl living in poverty in Latin America. Castedo is also a writer of poetry and the author of a critical study of Chilean theater. Castedo lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Paradise… (lisätietoja)