Dominican Republic literature has a long and interesting history.
Authors from the Dominican Republic
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Aída Cartagena Portalatín
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Alfonso Rodríguez
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Alfredo Fernández Simó
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Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo
Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo (1879–1947) was the first female medical school graduate in the Dominican Republic.Castro Ventura, Santiago. Evangelina Rodríguez, pionera médica dominicana. Santo Domingo: Ed. Manatí, 2003
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Angela Hernández Núñez
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Angie Cruz
Angie Cruz (born February 24, 1972) is an American novelist and associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches in the M.F.A. program.
Early life and education
Cruz was born on February 24, 1972, in Washington Heights ...
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Arambilet
Ángel Luis Arambilet Álvarez (born September 16, 1957), generally known professionally as simply Arambilet, is a novelist, poet, screenwriter, painter, graphic artist
A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graph ...
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Arturo Féliz-Camilo
Arturo Féliz-Camilo is a Dominican author, chef, academic, and lawyer. He has published about a variety of topics, but is most well known for his cookbooks, usually about Dominican food and its origins, traditions, and culture.
Early life
Arturo ...
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Blas Jiménez
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Camila Henríquez Ureña
Camila Henríquez Ureña (April 9, 1894 in Santo Domingo – September 12, 1973 in Santo Domingo), was a writer, essayist, educator and literary critic from the Dominican Republic who became a naturalized Cuban citizen. She descended from a family ...
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Carmen Quidiello
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César Nicolás Penson
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Cristino Gómez
Cristino Alberto Gómez Luciano (born 1987) is a Dominican poet, agronomist, and professor. Author of ''Ha vuelto el agua'', ''Yo dije el amor'', and other books.
Early life
Cristino Gómez grew up in Fondo Grande, a community in the municipalit ...
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Domingo Moreno Jimenes
Domingo Segundo Moreno Jimenes (7 January 1894 in Santo Domingo – 23 September 1986 in ''ibidem'') was a writer from the Dominican Republic; the founder and leader of the ', a Dominican Republic literature, Dominican literary movement.
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Fabio Fiallo
Fabio Fiallo, in full Fabio Federico Fiallo Cabral (February 3, 1866 – August 29, 1942) was a Dominican writer, poet, politician, and diplomat, primarily known for his modernist short stories and verses, as well as being an outspoken anti-imper ...
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Fernando Cabrera
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Francisco Gregorio Billini
Francisco Gregorio Billini Aristi (May 25, 1844 – November 28, 1898 in Santo Domingo) was a Dominican writer, pedagogue, and politician. Supported by the former president Ulises Heureaux, he won the national elections in 1884, and served as the ...
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Frank Báez
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Irvin Alberti
Irving Alberti is an actor and humourist from the Dominican Republic.
In 2012, he was elected by Luz García’s ''Noche de Luz'' programme as a "Summer’s Hot Body".
Career
;Radio
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Jael Uribe
Jael Uribe Elizabeth Medina is best known as Jael Uribe (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, February 10, 1975) is a writer, storyteller, poet and painter creator of the female poetic foundation named Women Poets International. She is considered ...
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Jaime Colson
Jaime Antonio Gumercindo González Colson (13 January 190120 November 1975) was a People of the Dominican Republic, Dominican modernism, modernist painter, writer, and playwright born in Tubagua, Puerto Plata Province, Puerto Plata in 1901. He is ...
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Joaquín Balaguer
Joaquín Antonio Balaguer Ricardo (1 September 1906 – 14 July 2002) was a Dominican politician, scholar, writer, and lawyer. He was President of the Dominican Republic serving three non-consecutive terms for that office from 1960 to 1962 ...
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José Alcántara Almánzar
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José Gabriel García
José Gabriel García (January 13, 1834 - January 19, 1910) was a Dominican Republic, Dominican army officer, historian, politician, journalist and publisher. He is regarded as a cultural pioneer as well as the "Father of Dominican History". He was ...
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Juan Bosch
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Juan Delancer
Juan Delancer is a Dominican writer, journalist, screenwriter and film director.
Career
Delancer got his start as a writer, researcher, journalist, documentarian and television producer in the Dominican Republic throughout the 1980s and 1990s be ...
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Juan Esteban Ariza Mendoza
Juan Esteban Ariza Mendoza III (24 February 1928 – 31 December 2006) was a Dominican lawyer, diplomat and poet.
He was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country lo ...
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Juan Isidro Moreno
Juan Isidro Moreno Espinal (Mata del Jobo, Sabaneta; 6 August 1924 – Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the c ...
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Juan Pablo Duarte
Juan Pablo Duarte y Díez (January 26, 1813 – July 15, 1876) was a Dominican military leader, writer, activist, and nationalist politician who was the foremost of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic and bears the title of Father of ...
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Julia Alvarez
Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels ''How the García Girls Lost Their Accents'' (1991), '' In the Time of the Butterflies'' (1994), and ''Yo!'' ...
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Julio Vega Batlle
Julio Vega Batlle (May 6, 1899 – April 23, 1973) was a Dominican Republic, Dominican writer, publishing both plays and novels, and a diplomat. He was born in Santiago de los Caballeros, and graduated from the University of Santo Domingo. He beca ...
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Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz (; born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and was fiction editor at ''Boston Review''. He also serves on the board of advisers for Freedo ...
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León Félix Batista
León Félix Batista (born 1964) Dominican author and poet. On September 11, 2003, he conducted an ''atentado poético'' ("poetic attack") in New York City in remembrance of the WTC attacks by flying a plane over New York He represented the Do ...
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Leopoldo Minaya
Leopoldo Minaya (born November 15, 1963) is a Dominican Republic, Dominican-American poet. He is a member of the ''Generation of 1980'' literary movement in the Dominican Republic. He won the 2001 Miguel de Cervantes Cultural Association Award. ...
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Manuel del Cabral
Manuel del Cabral (7 March 1907, in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic – 14 May 1999, in Santo Domingo) was a Dominican poet, writer, and diplomat. The son of Mario Fermín Cabral y Báez, an influential senator during the "Era of ...
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Marcio Veloz Maggiolo
Marcio Veloz Maggiolo (13 August 1936 – 10 April 2021) was a Dominican writer, archaeologist and anthropologist.
Biography
A prolific author of both academic and literary themes, his original-Spanish language works have been translated ...
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María Isabel Soldevila
María Isabel Soldevila Brea (b. Santo Domingo) is a journalist, academician, columnist, television presenter, and writer from the Dominican Republic.
Biography
When Soldevila was 18 years old, she began an internship at '' Listin Diario''.
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Maria Montez
María África Gracia Vidal (6 June 1912 – 7 September 1951), known professionally as Maria Montez, was a Dominican motion picture actress who gained fame and popularity in the 1940s starring in a series of filmed-in-Technicolor costume ...
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Mateo Morrison
Mateo Morrison Fortunato (born 14 April 1946) is a Dominican writer, lawyer, poet and essayist. He won the ''Premio Nacional de Literatura'' of the Dominican Republic in 2010.
Biography
Morrison is the son of Egbert Morrison, a native of Jamaica, ...
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Miguel D. Mena
Miguel D. Mena (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1961) is a Dominican writer, poet, essayist and publisher. He studied sociology in the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, where he graduated in 1986 with the thesis Ciudad, espacio y poder en ...
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Norberto James Rawlings
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Pedro Francisco Bonó
Pedro Francisco Bonó y Mejía (October 18, 1828 – September 13, 1906) was a Dominican politician, sociologist and intellectual. He is credited with being the first Dominican sociologist. He was the president of the Senate of the Dominica ...
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Pedro Mir
Pedro Julio Mir Valentín (3 June 1913, San Pedro de Macorís – 11 July 2000, Santo Domingo) was Dominican poet and writer, named Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic by Congress in 1984, and a member of the generation of "Independent po ...
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Rámon Marrero Aristy
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Raquel Cepeda
Raquel Cepeda is an American journalist, critic, film-maker, and autobiographer of Dominican descent. The editor of ''Russell Simmons' OneWorld'' magazine between 2001 and 2004, Cepeda was also the editor of the award-winning anthology "And It Don ...
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Rei Berroa
Rei Berroa (born in Gurabo, Dominican Republic, 1949) is a Dominican-American poet, university professor, literary and cultural critic, and translator living in the United States. He has published more than 25 books of poetry, anthologies, transl ...
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René Fortunato
René Antonio Fortunato (born February 1, 1958) is a Dominican film director, screenwriter, and producer. Fortunato is best known for his historical documentaries on Dominican government and politics. He began his career as a producer in 1985, w ...
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Rosa Silverio
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Salomé Ureña
Salomé Ureña Díaz de Henríquez (October 21, 1850 - March 6, 1897) was a Dominican poet and teacher, being one of the central figures of 19th-century lyrical poetry and advocator for women’s education in the Dominican Republic, influenced by ...
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Sócrates Nolasco Arístides Sócrates Henríquez Nolasco was a writer from the Dominican Republic. He was born in what is now Enriquillo in Barahona Province on March 20, 1884, and died in Santo Domingo on July 2, 1980.http://fundacioncorripio.org/productos_detalle ...
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Tulio Manuel Cestero
Tulio Manuel Cestero Leiva (10 July 1877, in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic – 27 October 1955) was a Dominican poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, politician and diplomat.
Biography
Cestero was born in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic, ...
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Edgar Smith
See also
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Caribbean literature
Caribbean literature is the literature of the various territories of the Caribbean region. Literature in English from the former British West Indies may be referred to as Anglo-Caribbean or, in historical contexts, as West Indian literature. Most o ...
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Latin American literature
Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and the indigenous languages of the Americas. It rose to particular prominence globally during the ...
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Mexican literature
Mexican literature is one of the most prolific and influential of Spanish-language literatures along with those of Spain and Argentina. Found among the names of its most important and internationally recognized literary figures are authors Oc ...
References
External links
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Literature and other materials from the Dominican Republic, in the text-searchable, Open Access Digital Library of the Caribbean''Al Amor del Bohio, Tomo II'' by Ramón Emilio Jiménezin the
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