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imagination. Cecile Pineda has enhanced the roster of modern literature's most remarkable female characters with her brilliantly drawn portrait.” —Richard Martins, The Chicago Tribune, March 8, 1992.
Fishlight: A Dream of Childhood
"Fishlight: A Dream of Childhood" is Pineda's fictional memoir told in the voice of a five-year-old. Published by Wings Press in 2001, it explores the imaginative formation of the future writer.
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In 2002, Pineda published the first of her mononovels.
Cecile Pineda
Cecile Pineda was born in September 1932 in Harlem, New York City. Her novels have won numerous awards including the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California in 1986 for Face, and a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. Pineda is a daughter of a Mexican professor of languages and a French-Swiss artist and teacher. In her autobiographical essay "Deracinated: the writer re-invents her sources" published in "Máscaras", she states that