Quiara Alegría Hudes, author portrait
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Quiara Alegría Hudes

Quiara Alegría Hudes is the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright of Water by the Spoonful and the musical In the Heights, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical, and which she adapted for the screen. Her memoir, My Broken Language, was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Cut, The Nation, and American Theater Magazine. She is co-founder with her cousin Sean of the prison writing program Emancipated Stories.
The White Hot
My Broken Language
In the Heights

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The White Hot
My Broken Language
In the Heights

WATCH: Audiobooks Read by the Author Panel from the Penguin Random House Book & Author Festival

Watch spoken word poet Jasmine Mans, author of Black Girl, Call Home and Pulitzer-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, author of My Broken Language, discuss their writing, the power of the spoken word and their experiences narrating their own audiobooks.

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