Mireya Robles
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Mireya Robles is an award-winning Cuban American writer and literary critic.
Robles was born in Guantánamo
, she was educated in Cuba where she attended the Institute of Guantánamo and the University of Havana
. She emigrated to the United States in 1957 and continued her studies at the Russell Sage College
and was awarded her doctorate from the State University of New York
. She has held numerous teaching positions and presently divides her time between South Africa and the United States.
She writes novels, prose, ans short stories as well as literary criticism. Some of her works have been translated. She was awarded the First Prize of the Iberoamerican Poets and Writers Guild in 1971 and the gold medal of the Academie Internationale de Lutèce in 1974. In 1989 she was a finalist for the Spanish literature award, the Nadal Prize
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Robles was born in Guantánamo
Guantánamo
Guantánamo is a municipality and city in southeast Cuba and capital of Guantánamo Province.Guantánamo is served by the Caimanera port and the site of a famous U.S. Naval base. The area produces sugarcane and cotton wool...
, she was educated in Cuba where she attended the Institute of Guantánamo and the University of Havana
University of Havana
The University of Havana or UH is a university located in the Vedado district of Havana, Cuba. Founded in 1728, the University of Havana is the oldest university in Cuba, and one of the first to be founded in the Americas...
. She emigrated to the United States in 1957 and continued her studies at the Russell Sage College
Russell Sage College
Russell Sage College is a women's college located in Troy, New York, approximately north of New York City in the Capital District. It is one of the three colleges that make up The Sage Colleges...
and was awarded her doctorate from the State University of New York
State University of New York
The State University of New York, abbreviated SUNY , is a system of public institutions of higher education in New York, United States. It is the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the United States, with a total enrollment of 465,000 students, plus...
. She has held numerous teaching positions and presently divides her time between South Africa and the United States.
She writes novels, prose, ans short stories as well as literary criticism. Some of her works have been translated. She was awarded the First Prize of the Iberoamerican Poets and Writers Guild in 1971 and the gold medal of the Academie Internationale de Lutèce in 1974. In 1989 she was a finalist for the Spanish literature award, the Nadal Prize
Premio Nadal
Premio Nadal is a Spanish literary prize awarded annually by the publishing house Ediciones Destino, part of Planeta. It has been awarded every year on January 6 since 1944...
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Works
- Combinado del este. Novel
- Trisagio de la muerte. Short stories
- Frigorífico del este. Short stories
- Petits poèmes, 1969. Poetry
- Tiempo artesano. Barcelona: Campos, 1973. Poetry
- En esta aurora. Xalapa: Universidad Veracruzana, 1976. Poetry
- Hagiografía de Narcisa la bella, 1985. Novel tr. as Hagiography of Narcisa the Beautiful (trans. Anna Diegel), Readers International (1996) ISBN 1887378030
- Profecía y luz en la poesía de Maya Islas, 1987. Criticism
- Una mujer y otras cuatro, 1989. Novel
- La muerte definitiva de Pedro el Largo, 1998. Novel