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La Poesía Sorprendida (Spanish for “Surprised poetry”) was a Dominican literary movement and avant-garde journal that existed from October 1943 to May 1947. Rebelling from the nationalism and realism that prevailed in Dominican poetry at the time, the sorprendistas sought to cultivate a universal poetics that explored the psyche and soul in surrealistic ways.
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 argue 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 ...
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.
Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza (formerly known as Doña Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza; January 2, 1566 – January 2, 1614) [1] [2] [3] is best known for her mystical religious poetry as well as her fight to spread Catholicism throughout England, by preaching against Anglicanism. She was imprisoned on two occasions, once in 1608 and again in 1613 for ...
Luis Desangles Lubiles (8 February 1861 – 13 April 1940) was a Dominican painter, sculptor, and educator born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.Instructor to many of the great native artists of the era, Desangles is remembered as one of the forerunners of Dominican national art and initiators of the country's costumbrismo style.
President Emilio de los Santos — 26 September 1963 23 December 1963 88 days Military: Members: Emilio de los Santos (President), Manuel Enrique Tavares Espaillat, Ramón Tapia Espinal. Triumvirate under President Donald Reid Cabral — 23 December 1963 25 April 1965 1 year, 123 days Military
Margarita Cedeño de Fernández – vice-president and former First Lady of the Dominican Republic; David Collado – former mayor of Santo Domingo; Ricardo de los Santos Polanco – politician, and President of Senate of the Dominican Republic; Luis Colón, 1st Duke of Veragua – nobleman, grandson of Christopher Columbus
Leopoldo Navarro (1862 – July 12, 1908) was a Dominican Republic painter, educator, mathematician, and sculptor born in Santo Domingo in 1862. An impressionistic romantic, he is considered one of the forerunners of national Dominican plastic arts, as well as a notable educator.