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TITLE: Myrka Dellanos: Book Fest 05
SPEAKER: Myrka Dellanos
EVENT DATE: 09/24/2005
RUNNING TIME: 16 minutes
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Author and journalist Myrka Dellanos at the 2005 National Book Festival
Speaker Biography: For over a decade, Myrka Dellanos has been the number one U.S. born, bilingual broadcast journalist in Spanish television. More than 20 million viewers throughout the United States, Latin America and worldwide have come to embrace and welcome her into their homes and families. She was the host of Univision Network's successful news magazine show "Primer Impacto" for 10 years and now has her own prime time program, "En Exclusiva con Myrka Dellanos" or "Exclusively with Myrka Dellanos," where she interviews the news makers of the moment. She has received numerous awards in journalism, including two Emmy Awards--one each for news reporting and news writing. Her new book is "Triunfa y se Feliz; cosas que aprendi gracias a Dios, a mi madre y a la vida" or "Succeed and Be Happy; things I learned thank God, my mother and life" (Random House, 2005). She lives with her 11-year-old daughter in Florida.
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SERIES: National Book Festival 2005