Ángela Hernández Núñez (born May 6, 1954) is a writer, educator and feminist in the

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Life

Núñez was born in

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and studied chemical engineering at the

Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo The Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) () is a public university system in Dominican Republic, with its flagship campus in Ciudad Universitaria (lit. University City) neighborhood of Santo Domingo and regional campuses in many citi ...

. She was the director of the Centro Nacional de Ayuda y Estudio de la Mujer and a member of the Dominican Chapter of Criticism for Latin America. She was an active member of the Circulo de Mujeres Poetas (Circle of Women poets) and a founding member of the Grupo de Mujeres Creadoras (Group of Creative Women). In 1998 she was awarded the Dominican National Literary Award for her short story, ''Piedra de Sacrificio''.

Selected works

* ''Emergencia del silencio'' (Emerging from silence), essays (1985) * '' Tizne y cristal'' (Dust and crystal), poems (1985) * ''Edades del asombro'' (Ages of amazement), poems (1985) * ''De críticos y creadores'' (Critics and creators), essays (1988) * ''Alótropos'' (Allotropes), stories (1989) * ''Masticar una rosa'' (To chew a rose), stories (1993) * ''Arca espejada'' (Mirrored ark) (1994) * ''Telar de rebeldía'' (Loom of defiance), poems (1998) * ''Piedra de sacrificio'' (Sacrificial stone), stories 1999), won the Premio Nacional de Cuentos

Awards

*1998 Dominican National Literary Award: Short Story for ''Piedra de Sacrifico''Daisy Cocco de Filippis, "Hernández, Ángela (1954-)." ''Encyclopedia of Caribbean Literature''. Ed. D.H. Figueredo. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. 382.

References

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