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Luis López Nieves (born in 1950) is one of the most important and best-selling Puerto Rican authors. He stepped in the public eye when his first short story, Seva was published in Claridad (a local newspaper). The story, caused a storm of controversy regarding the invasion of Puerto Rico by the United States and effectivily made the author one of the most recogniced on the island.

Biography
Luis López Nieves was born in Washington D.C. from Puerto Rican parents. Seven years later his family returns to Puerto Rico and he is stablish on the islands where he would wind up living the rest of his life.

Education
He started attending the University of Puerto Rico: Rio Piedras Campus at the age of 15. His studies would be interrupted however, because just one year later he decided to flee with his girlfriend to New York. Not soon after the parents of the girl found them and took her back to Puerto Rico he decided to go traveling around the world and travels around 3 continents.

Publications and achievements
His book The True Death of Juan Ponce de León was the winner of the National Literature Prize. Additional books he has published include Seva, one of Puerto Rico's most renowned and best selling books, and Writing for Rafa. In 2005 he published the novel Voltaire's Heart. His short stories have been published in major Latin American and Spanish anthologies.

Doctor López Nieves created and is the current director of the first and only Master´s in Creative Writing of Puerto Rico, at the Sacred Heart University, in San Juan. He also founded and directs Ciudad Seva Digital Library (ciudadseva.com), that has received more than 6.5 million visitors from all over the world (in June, 2006).

López Nieves has a BA in General Studies from the University of Puerto Rico; also a MA in Hispanic Literature and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, both from State University of New York at Stony Brook.

He has collaborated with several newspapers and written two TV miniseries. He has also written the scripts for important PSA advertisements. He has been visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and was a Ford Foundation Fellow.

Novel

 * El corazón de Voltaire, 2005, Grupo Editorial Norma. (Voltaire's Heart.)

Short stories

 * Seva (one of Puerto Rico's most celebrated short stories), 1984, Grupo Editorial Norma.


 * Escribir para Rafa, 1987, Editorial Cordillera. (Writing for Rafa.)


 * Te traigo un cuento: cuentos puertorriqueños de 1997 (recopilador, antología de cuentos, Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico), 1997.


 * La verdadera muerte de Juan Ponce de León, 2000, Grupo Editorial Norma. (The True Death of Juan Ponce de León.)

Some anthologies that include his short stories

 * El cuento hispanoamericano (Seymour Menton, Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, Seventh Edition, 2003).
 * El cuento hispanoamericano en el siglo XX (Fernando Burgos, Editorial Castalia, Madrid, 1997).


 * El muro y la intemperie: El nuevo cuento latinoamericano (Julio Ortega, Ediciones del Norte, New Hampshire, USA, 1989).


 * Cuentos para ahuyentar el turismo (Vitalina Alfonso y Emilio Jorge Rodríguez, Editorial Arte y Literatura, La Habana, Cuba, 1991).


 * Writing Between the Lines (Bowen & Weigel, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA, USA, 1997).


 * Die Horen (Wilfried Böhringer, Germany, Year 42, 3rd Quarter, Edition 187, 1997).


 * Los nuevos caníbales: Antología de la más reciente cuentística del caribe hispano (Bobes, Valdez y Gómez Beras, Editorial Isla Negra -joint publishing with Ediciones Unión/Cuba and Editorial Búho/Dominican Republic-, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2000).