Soledad Álvarez

Soledad Álvarez (born December 13, 1950 in Santo Domingo ) is a Dominican writer.

life and work

Soledad Alvarez was born in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic , in 1950 . Her first poems, which she wrote as a teenager, were published in various local newspapers and magazines. At the beginning of her writing career she was associated with the literary group "La Antorcha" and the writers of "young Dominican poetry". During this time, she was also the author of the column "Soledad Alvarez escribe AM" (tr .: Soledad Alvarez writes in the morning).

In 1975 Alvarez moved to Cuba , where she studied literary studies with a focus on Latin American studies, while at the same time working at the well-known Center for Literary Research, where she met many Latin American authors. After her return to the Dominican Republic she worked as a journalist , cultural politician and author of essays and poems. She was a columnist for Dominican newspapers such as "El Nacional" and "Listín Diario" and headed the culture supplement "Isla Abierta" of the newspaper Hoy . Alvarez was also represented on the board of the Asociación de Críticos Literarios and from 1992 to 1994 was a member of the writers' association "La Casa del Escritor Dominicano".

In 1981 she published her essay "La Magna Patria de Pedro Henríquez Ureña" (tr .: The great fatherland of Pedro Henríquez Ureña ), which deals with the famous Dominican literary critic. The work was awarded the Siboney Essay Prize. Alvarez was the editor of the publication »El Periolibro« (1996), dedicated to Ureña and published by UNESCO and the Fondo de Cultura Económica publishing house, which provides a network of Ibero-American daily newspapers. In 1994 her first volume of poetry, "Vuelo Posible" (tr: Possible flight), was published. The abstract as well as sensual poems address the transience of desire and, with a specifically feminine perspective, explore the possibilities for a balance between feeling and reason. Alvarez 'volume of essays »Complicidades« (1998; T: Complicity) combines reviews and commentaries on Dominican literature in which the author explores the interplay between reader, text, writer and literary history.

Alvarez, whose poems have appeared in numerous Dominican and international anthologies, was a member of the jury for the prestigious Mexican literary prize Juan Rulfo in 2002 . She lives in Santo Domingo.

Others

Soledad Alvarez was a participant at the international literature festival Berlin 2005.

Alvarez is one of the three persons to whom the 2020 published in German novel Hard years of Mario Vargas Llosa is dedicated. She is described in the epilogue as an old friend of the main protagonist of the historical novel, Marta Borrero Parra.

Works

• "La Magna Patria de Pedro Henríquez Ureña" ; Taller, Santo Domingo, 1981
• “El Debate sobre las generaciones” ; Fundación Cultural Dominicana, Santo Domingo, 1991
• "Vueblo Posible" ; Fundación Cultural Dominicana, Taller, Santo Domingo, 1994
• "Complicidades" ; Fundación Cultural Dominicana, Taller, Santo Domingo, 1998
• "Euskal eskultura Kutxaren bilduman = Escultura vasca en la coleccioìn Kutxa Kutxa" ; San Sebastian, 2000
• "Jorge Oteiza: pasión y razón" ; Nerea, San Sebastián, 2003

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Soledad Alvarez - international literature festival berlin. Retrieved February 21, 2017 .