Ana Castillo was born in 1953, has grown in Chicago, the USA. The Spanish language - its the first and a native language. Аna has left school and also college in Chicago, and then it was trained at Northeast university Illinois.
In 1979, she have got the Master’s degree on history and culture of Latin America and Caribbean region at University of Chicago. Ana eulogizes advantages of the environment of a megacity: «I give to it due because the city is a mixture of many cultures, and you grow with knowledge of that in the world there is a set of beliefs and traditions».
Ana has received the thesis for a doctor's degree at the Bremen university in Germany. Ana has prepared a series of essays which have been united subsequently in the collection «Slaughter-house of dreams» instead of the traditional dissertation.
Castillo admits that she has written the first verses about death of one of her grandmothers on a childre's playground. Ann in seiously was engaged in writing in the mid-seventies, as the poet - the apologist of social movement of "Chikano", and her first verses have obtained a national recognition in 1975. Toni Morrison was one of her early idols; she also took a great interest of Anais Ninas.
After Ana acknowledges that it «has been exhausted by antagonism between females and men of movement of "Chikano". She leaves this movement and writes the book "Invitation" in 1979.
This playful book has served some kind of a call to ma's antagonism and has opened Latin chauvinism of heroes.
During second half of 80th and in the early nineties Ana Castillo taught a course of the rights of women in various colleges and universities of California. At the same time Ann has written «Letters of Mikskiahualy» (1986), «My father - Toltek» (1988), "Sapagonija" (1990).
Castillo brings up questions of self-identification, racism, classicism. The majority of her heroes - independent women. Her novels were submitted to influence of magic realism. Especially it is notable in the novel "Sapogonija", about the invented country in which there live metises. Her works are translated on many languages. Ann Castillo writes for Los Angeles Times and Salon.
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