Sandra Cisneros, MARTITA, I REMEMBER YOU / MARITA, TE RECUERDO: A Story in English and Spanish
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Zibby is joined by literary icon Sandra Cisneros to talk about her latest book, Martita, I Remember You, which she actually began writing in the early 1990s. The two talk about what made Sandra move forward with publishing this story now, why she feels the need to share as many stories as she can "with the time she has left," and what she would be doing if she weren't a writer (hint: it's still something incredibly creative).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.1 | If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids. |
| 0:12.9 | Check it out, and you'll hear from 49 authors about all sorts of things moms don't have time to do. |
| 0:17.9 | All the authors have been on this podcast. Also, check out my TikTok at With Zibby and Tracy, my other podcast, Sex Talk with Zivie and Tracy. |
| 0:25.7 | Check out Moms Don't Have Time to Write on Medium. |
| 0:28.5 | And of course, my new publishing company called Zivie Books. |
| 0:32.3 | And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids. |
| 0:36.9 | Hi. |
| 0:37.4 | Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:41.2 | I'm so honored to have interviewed the legendary author Sandra Cisneros about her latest book, |
| 0:47.2 | Martita I Remember You, and in Spanish, Martita te requeurdo. Sorry, I don't speak Spanish. |
| 0:53.4 | Sandra is a poet, short story writer, novelist, |
| 0:56.2 | essayist, performer, and artist whose work explores the lives of the working class. Her numerous |
| 1:00.9 | awards include NIA fellowships in both poetry and fiction, a MacArthur Fellowship, several |
| 1:05.7 | honorary doctorates, and national and international book awards, including Chicago's fifth star |
| 1:09.9 | award, the Pan America Literary Award, and the National Medal of Arts. |
| 1:14.4 | Most recently, she received the Ford Foundation's Art of Change Fellowship, was recognized among the Frederick Douglass 200 and won the Penn Navakov Award for Achievement in International Literature. |
| 1:25.7 | In addition to her writing, Cisneros has fostered |
| 1:28.4 | the careers of many aspiring and emerging writers through two non-profits she founded, |
| 1:32.8 | the Macondo Foundation, and the Alfredo Cisneros del Morale Foundation. She is also the organizer |
| 1:38.5 | of Los MacArthuros, Latino MacArthur Fellows, who are community activists. And now I think I should go back |
| 1:45.4 | to school for Spanish because French seems to have been a complete waste. Sandra, I am so honored |
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