Dolores M. Koch
Dolores Mercedes Koch (née Gonzalez, 1928 - 11 June 2009) was a Cuban American literary critic and translator who was a pioneer in the area of microfiction.
Biography
[edit]Koch was born in Havana, Cuba in 1928.[1]
Koch completed her higher education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.[2] She received her PhD in Latin American Literature in 1986, and in addition to her work on microfiction, translated to English several important Spanish-language works, including those of Laura Restrepo, Jorge Bucay, Alina Fernández, Emily Schindler, Enrique Joven, and her compatriot Reinaldo Arenas, whose work Before Night Falls[3] was adapted to a film of the same name.[4][5][6]
Her article (in Spanish) "El micro-relato en México: Torri, Arreola, Monterroso y Avilés Fabila", published in 1981, is the first critical work on microfiction in the Spanish-speaking world.
Koch died at her home in New York on 11 June 2009.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Dolores M. Koch, 1928-2009". Have a Voice. 2009-07-14. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
- ^ Dolores M. Koch. "El micro-relato en México: Torri, Arreola, Monterroso y Avilés Fabila", Hispamérica, published by: Saul Sosnowski, Año 10, Number 30, December 1981, page 123.
- ^ Ruta, Suzanne (2001-09-30). "Cuba Libre". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
- ^ "NYTimes". movies2.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
- ^ "Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
- ^ "Before Night Falls". www.publishersweekly.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-06. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
Further reading
[edit]External links
[edit]- Dolores Koch collection of Reinaldo Arenas[permanent dead link] at Princeton University Library Special Collections
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