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Pedro Francisco Bonó. The first novel written by a Dominican was El montero (published in Paris, France in 1856), by Pedro Francisco Bonó, although some literary historians say that the first Dominican novel is Los amores de los indios (published in Havana, Cuba in 1843) by Alejandro Angulo Guridi or even Cecilia, by the same author, which, although published incomplete in the Sunday weekly ...
Ramón Marrero Aristy Beltré (14 June 1912 – 17 July 1959) was a Dominican author, journalist, politician and historian. [1] He is renowned as a writer of realist novels, especially those set around sugar-cane, and highlighted the abuse to which sugar industry workers were subject.
In July 1944 he entered the diplomatic service as a stenographer - typist Dominican Consulate in Curaçao. Between 1944 and 1975 he held the following positions : Aggregate of the Dominican Legation in Haiti (1944-1945), Civil Added in Colombia (1945-1946), Second Secretary of the Dominican Embassy in Colombia (1947), Charge d' Affaires Dominican in Chile (1948), First Secretary of the ...
The book tells the story of Ana, a young woman from the Dominican Republic who moves to New York in 1965 after marrying an older man, Juan. She is unhappy there, but sees a new side of life when her husband temporarily returns to the Dominican Republic leaving her in the care of his younger brother, Cesar: she can study English, go to the beach, and go dancing.
Andrés L. Mateo was born in Santo Domingo in 1946. The son of Antonio Mateo Peguero and Guadalupe Martínez Reyes, his primary education studies were at the Colegio San Juan Bosco, where he wrote his first novel, Pisando los dedos de Dios.
Daisy Cocco DeFilippis (born 25 February 1949) is a Dominican-American academic administrator and author. She is the current president at Hostos Community College in The Bronx, making her the first person born in the Dominican Republic to serve as President of a college of the City University of New York.
Mario Antonio Read Vittini was born in Hatillo, near San Cristóbal, on 15 May 1926. From his father, he descends from William Augustus Read (1820–1887), an American immigrant from Roxbury, Massachusetts, of English and French descent, who married Dominga Rodríguez Isambert, a Dominican of partial French origin.
Juan Pablo Duarte y Díez (January 26, 1813 – July 15, 1876) [1] 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 the Nation.