Jaime Martinez-Tolentino

Jaime Martinez-Tolentino is the author of TAINO (Altera Editorial, May 2014). This Spanish-language historical novel covers 472 years in the history of one of one of the least known minorities in the US, following the lives of three central characters and their descendants: Chief Agüeybaná, the Brave, his sister Guanina, and the Shaman Coabey. Martinez-Tolentino has a B.A. and an M.A in French from New York University, a Certificat de Langue Française from Paris’ Sorbonne, a Ph.D. in French from the University of Madrid, another M.A. and another Ph.D. in Spanish and Latin American Literature. He was a finalist in 1992 for the University of Miami’s Golden Letters Award, and has received literary awards in Puerto Rico, the U.S. and Portugal. He is the author of 13 books, the editor of 6 others, and has published widely in journals from Puerto Rico,the USA, Canada, Spain, Venezuela, Mexico, Peru, Italy, Colombia, and the Internet. Find him on Wikipedia here.