About Anjanette

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Anjanette Delgado is an Emmy award-winning writer and producer with experience in broadcast, cable, print and Internet environments. She has produced for CNN, NBC, Univision and Telemundo, among others, producing extensive coverage for events such as the 1991 Gulf War, the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the sustained 24-hour coverage of the war with Iraq, which she helmed in 2003. She won her Emmy for her human-interest series “Madres en la lejanía,” about the plight of Latino mothers who leave their own children behind and come to the United States to work illegally as nannies.

Her first sitcom, “Great in Bed” was bought and is set to be produced by HBO Latin America, and her first novel, The Heartbreak Pill, was published by Simon & Schuster’s Atria Books in 2008, winning the 2009 Latino Book Award for Best Novel/ Romance/English. The Spanish-language version of the novel, titled “La pildora del mal amor” is due out in August of 2009.

Anjanette, a Puerto Rico native, has also applied her expertise to creating community-driven and empowering broadcast, print and event-based efforts for Latinos in the US. In 2004, she launched and implemented the strategic department of Community Connections at Telemundo, winning the first ever Sentinel for Health Awards ever given to a Spanish-language network or station for her campaigns on Breast Cancer and Diabetes, and later as director of Strategic Content Development at Plural Entertaiment, Inc., part of Spain’s Grupo Prisa. She is currently hard at work on her second novel, The Calle Ocho Clairvoyant, and writing articles that have been published by Vogue, NPR, Urban Latino, and The Miami Herald. She lives in Miami, Florida. To contact, you can visit anja@anjanettedelgado.com, or visit www.anjanetttedelgado.com