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Death of the businessman

Giannina Braschi (b. 1959, San Juan, Puerto Rico) is the author of Empire of Dreams, translated by Tess O’Dwyer (who won the 1994 Columbia University Translation Center Award for it), and the bilingual comic novel Yo-Yo Boing! Among other prizes, Braschi has received the Open Book award from the PEN American Center and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, and the Danforth Foundation. ‘‘Death of the Businessman’’ is from a forthcoming collection of essays and fiction, tentatively titled ‘‘Hamlet y Segismundo,’’ about the experience of living near Ground Zero during the collapse of the World Trade Center.