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Judith Ortiz Cofer (February 24, 1952 – December 30, 2016 [2]) was a Puerto Rican author. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Her critically acclaimed and award-winning work spans a range of literary genres including poetry, short stories, autobiography, essays, and young-adult fiction.
The Line of the Sun, titled La Línea del Sol in the Spanish translation, is a 1989 novel written by Puerto Rican-American author Judith Ortiz Cofer. The story spans three decades, beginning in the late 1930s and ending in the 1960s. [1] The novel is Ortiz Cofer's main work of prose, and its publication helped broaden her readership. [2]
In his book José, Can You See?, Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez mentions Cofer's trouble with the stereotyping, but also highlights that she uses the term "Latino" as an identity marker, which shows that she "not only embraces other Latino ethnicities in the U.S., she also engages in the deconstruction of Latina stereotypes in Hollywood and in the media". [2]
Bernardo Vega, novelist, author of The Memoirs of Bernardo Vega (1977, English ed. 1984) [24] Edgardo Vega Yunqué or Ed Vega, novelist [138] Irene Vilar, author and literary agent. Vilar is the granddaughter of independence activist Lolita Lebrón. [139] Alfredo Villanueva Collado, poet [140] William Carlos Williams (Puerto Rican mother ...
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Jan Beatty, Mad River; Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Wendell Berry; Anisfield-Wolf Book Award: Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry; Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Stewart James, "Vanessa", and (separately) Marilyn Hacker, "Cancer Winter"
Riding Low on the Streets of Gold, Latino Literature for Young Adults, Ed. by Judith Ortiz Cofer (Piñata Books/Arte Público Press/University of Houston, 2003) ISBN 1-55885-380-4. Latino/a Literature in the English Classroom ; Ed. by Manuel Hernández (Editorial Plaza Mayor; San Juan, PR, 2003) ISBN 1-56328-249-6 .
Zenobia Camprubí (1887–1956), Spanish-born poet, diarist, translator; Luisa Capetillo (1879–1922), anarchist, feminist writer; Caridad de la Luz (born 1977), Nuyorican poet, actress, activist
Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952–2016), Puerto Rican poet and author; Leonard Cohen (1934–2016), Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist; Wanda Coleman (1946–2013), African-US poet; Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849), English poet, biographer and essayist; Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907), English novelist, essayist and poet