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
Koch was born in Havana, Cuba in 1928.[1]
Dolores Koch received her PhD in Latin American Literature from the City University of New York, 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[2] was adapted to a film of the same name.[3][4][5]
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
- ^ a b "Dolores M. Koch, 1928-2009". Have a Voice. 2009-07-14. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
- ^ 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. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
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- 1928 births
- 2009 deaths
- Writers from Havana
- Cuban emigrants to the United States
- Spanish–English translators
- American literary critics
- Women literary critics
- City University of New York alumni
- 20th-century American women writers
- American writers of Cuban descent
- 20th-century Cuban women writers
- 20th-century translators
- 20th-century American writers
- 20th-century Cuban writers