Dominican writer, educator and feminist
Ángela Hernández Núñez (born May 6, 1954)[1] is a writer, educator and feminist in the Dominican Republic.[2]
Life
Núñez was born in Jarabacoa and studied chemical engineering at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. 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).[1]
In 1998 she was awarded the Dominican National Literary Award for her short story, Piedra de Sacrificio.[3]
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
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Awards
- 1998 Dominican National Literary Award: Short Story for Piedra de Sacrifico[3]
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