Cecilia Samartin is a Cuban-American writer and psychologist

Psychologist

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. She studied psychology

Psychology

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 at UCLA and marriage and family therapy at Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University

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For several years she has been working with people who have immigrated to the USA from countries in Latin America.

Samartin has also been translated into Dutch, German and Norwegian.

Samartin had a very successful book tour in Norway in 2009; she has topped the bestseller list there for over two years.

Her books have recently been released in Portugal and Finland and are to be released this summer in Italy.

She lives in San Gabriel, California

San Gabriel, California

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, with her British-born husband.

External links

• Official website
• http://www.juritzen.no/ Juritzen - Norwegian publisher
• http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Cecilia-Samartin/62594206 Simon and Schuster - USA publisher