Elena Castedo | |
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 Castedo, from her novel Paradise, 1990 | |
| Born | Elena Castedo Magaña 1937 (age 86–87) Barcelona, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish-American |
| Education | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, University of California at Los Angeles, Harvard University |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, educator |
| Spouses | Dalton Wooding
(m. 1958; died in 1965)A. Denny Ellerman (m. 1973) |
| Website | elenacastedo |
Elena Castedo or Elena Castedo-Ellerman (born 1937) is an American and Spanish author and educator who writes in both Spanish and English. Her novel Paradise (1990) was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. Her subsequent self-translation of the work into Spanish, as El paraíso (1990), was named by El Mercurio as the Chilean Book of the Year, was a best-seller for five months in Spain, and was nominated for the Miguel de Cervantes Prize. Her short stories Troopers (1986) and The White Bedspread (1991) each won a Phoebe Prize from George Mason University. Bedspread also was selected as the winner of the PEN International short story contest.