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.
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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.
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