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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 ...
He was a member of the Academia Dominicana de la Lengua, a member of the Facultad de Ciencias y Artes Musicales of the Universidad de Chile, and was a recipient of the Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella. Rueda won the Premio Annual de Literatura ("Annual Literature Award") six times, and in 1995 he won the Premio Teatral Tirso de Molina.
Norberto James Rawlings was born on the sugar plantation of Ingenio Consuelo, San Pedro de Macorís, and grew up in an English-speaking minority community descended from African slaves, known pejoratively as cocolos by the Spanish-speaking Dominicans. His early years were marked by daily struggles as well as exposure to American culture in an ...
Juan Emilio Bosch y Gaviño (30 June 1909 – 1 November 2001) was a Dominican politician, historian, writer, essayist, educator, and the first democratically elected president of the Dominican Republic for a brief time in 1963.
Pedro Julio Mir Valentín (3 June 1913, San Pedro de Macorís – 11 July 2000, Santo Domingo) was a Dominican poet and writer, named Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic by Congress in 1984, and a member of the generation of "Independent poets of the 1940s" in Dominican poetry.
Salomé Ureña Díaz de Henríquez (October 21, 1850 – March 6, 1897) was a Dominican poet and teacher, being one of the central figures of 19th-century lyrical poetry and advocator for women's education in the Dominican Republic, influenced by the positivist schools and the normal education of Eugenio María de Hostos, of whom she was an advantaged student.
Three teens face charges after a Marta bus driver, identified as Leroy Ramos, was killed, officials say.
Colección del Banco Central de la República Dominicana, Santo Domingo, 2005. María Ugarte: textos literarios (Editor, selection and prologue). Colección del Banco Central de la República Dominicana, Santo Domingo, 2006.