Dancing on Her Knees

Name: Dancing on Her Knees
Author: Nilo Cruz

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Nilo Cruz

Cuban-American playwright who became the first Latino writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Anna in the Tropics. His lyrical plays explore Cuban exile culture with a poetic sensibility rooted in Garcia Lorca and Chekhov. His work bridges the Cuban theatrical tradition and American playwriting.

More by Nilo Cruz

Anna in the TropicsCuban immigrant reads Chekhov aloud in a cigar factory
Two Sisters and a PianoPolitical prisoners separated by a piano face repression and desire
Night Train to BolinaImmigrant family navigates displacement and memory on Cuban rails
A Very Old Man with Enormous WingsMagical realist adaptation of García Márquez's surreal Latin American tale