Julia Alvarez
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Julia Alvarez was born in New York City on March 27, 1950 and was raised in the Dominican Republic. Before becoming a full-time writer, she traveled across the country with poetry-in-the-schools programs and then taught at the high school level and the college level. In 1991, she earned tenure at mostra altro Middlebury College and published her first book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent, which won the PEN Oakland/Jefferson Miles Award for excellence in 1991. Her other works include In the Time of the Butterflies, The Other Side of El Otro Lado, and Once upon a Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the USA. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Serie
Opere di Julia Alvarez
El mejor regalo del mundo: La Leyenda De La Vieja Belen / The Best Gift of All: The Legend of La Vieja Belen (2009) 42 copie
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Opere correlate
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 930 copie
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introduzione — 380 copie
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Collaboratore — 353 copie
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (1998) — Collaboratore — 298 copie
Daughters of the Fifth Sun: A Collection of Latina Fiction and Poetry (1995) — Collaboratore — 54 copie
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (2023) — Collaboratore — 21 copie
The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes (2016) — Collaboratore — 18 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1950-03-27
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA (birth)
- Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
Dominican Republic - Istruzione
- Abbot Academy (1967)
University of Connecticut
Middlebury College (1971)
Syracuse University (M.A., Creative Writing, 1975) - Attività lavorative
- writer
teacher
poet
professor
business owner - Relazioni
- Eichner, Bill (spouse)
- Organizzazioni
- PEN
Sigma Tau Delta - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Benjamin T. Marshall Poetry Prize, Connecticut College, 1968 and 1969
prize from Academy of American Poetry, 1974
creative writing fellowship, Syracuse University, 1974-75
Kenan grant, Phillips Andover Academy, 1980
poetry award, La Reina Press, 1982
exhibition grant, Vermont Arts Council, 1984-85 (mostra tutto 28)
Robert Frost Poetry fellowship, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 1986
Third Woman Press Award, first prize in narrative, 1986
award for younger writers, General Electric Foundation, 1986
National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1987-88
grant from Ingram Merrill Foundation, 1990
Josephine Miles Award, PEN Oakland, 1991
notable book designation, American Library Association, 1992
notable book designation, 1994, American Library Association
National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, 1995
Best Books for Young Adults designation, 1995, American Library Association, all for In the Time of the Butterflies
Jessica Nobel-Maxwell Poetry Prize, 1995, American Poetry Review
Doctor of Humane Letters, City University of New York, John Jay College, 1996
Alumni Achievement Award, 1996, Middlebury College
Dominican Republic Annual Book Fair, 1997, dedicated to Alvarez's body of work
selected "Woman of the Year," Latina Magazine, 2000
Sor Juana Award, 2002
Hispanic Heritage Award, Hispanic Heritage Awards Foundation, 2002
Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs, 2002
Pura Belpre Author Award, American Library Association, 2010, for Return to Sender
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (2009)
Pura Belpré Award, American Library Association, 2004
"Twenty-one Classics for the Twenty-first Century" designation, New York Librarians - Agente
- Susan Bergholz Literary Services
- Breve biografia
- From 2009 National Book Festival brochure: "Although Julia Alvarez was born in New York City, her family moved to the Dominican Republic shortly after birth, where she spent the majority of her childhood. In 1960, when she was 10, her family returned to the United States, fleeing the Dominican Republic because of her father's involvement in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the dictator Rafael Trujillo. Alvarez calls herself an American, yet her writing bridges the realms of Latina and American culture."
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Recensioni
This book is just beautiful. From the first page, Alvarez lures you so deeply into the narrative that it is hard to put the book down. By creating such multilayered and individuated portrayals of the Mirabal sisters, Alvarez allows the reader to identify emotionally and mentally with all four of them while also paving a road for the reader to learn more about the actual Mirabal sisters.
Creative! Thought provoking! Great storytelling; stories within stories!
The title caught my eye; I'm glad it did.
What happens to untold stories? Are they lost forever? Should all stories be told?
The title caught my eye; I'm glad it did.
What happens to untold stories? Are they lost forever? Should all stories be told?
3.25
This is an ARC from netgalley.
The idea of a cemetery of untold stories is beautiful, however, the storyline felt a bit jumbled and the individual stories all swirled together. I listened to this on audio and I think it made understanding the multiple characters tales across different points in time even more confusing.
There were also stories left somewhat unfinished and the ending felt a bit soft for me.
It does remind me of Isabel Allende novels - so if you like those, you may enjoy this.… (altro)
This is an ARC from netgalley.
The idea of a cemetery of untold stories is beautiful, however, the storyline felt a bit jumbled and the individual stories all swirled together. I listened to this on audio and I think it made understanding the multiple characters tales across different points in time even more confusing.
There were also stories left somewhat unfinished and the ending felt a bit soft for me.
It does remind me of Isabel Allende novels - so if you like those, you may enjoy this.… (altro)
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4th Grade Books (1)
Female Author (2)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 34
- Opere correlate
- 37
- Utenti
- 15,944
- Popolarità
- #1,421
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 461
- ISBN
- 390
- Lingue
- 9
- Preferito da
- 34
I loved the magical realism elements to the story, and the multiple overlapping storylines. I found it to be quite immersive, and I was very interested in learning about these character's lives.
It was a bit slow at times, however, and it took me a while to get through. It does also follow the Sally Rooney trend of not indicating speech with quotation marks, which I am very much not a fan of. Overall though, it was a pretty good book.… (altro)