Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York of Dominican descent, she spent the first ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, until her father's involvement in a political rebellion forced her family to flee the country.
Alvarez rose to prominence with the novels How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and ¡Yo! (1997). Her publications as a poet include The Housekeeping Book (1984) and The Woman I Kept to Myself (2004), and as an essayist the autobiographical compilation Something to Declare (1998). Many commentators regard her to be one of the most significant Latina writers, and she has achieved critical and commercial success on an international scale.
Julia Alvarez. This blog will tell us about the life and works of Julia Alvarez, a wonderful writer.
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Caro!! I like the description you make of Julia Alvarez. I learn a lot, and the most important is that SHE IS A DOMINICAN and I though she was a republican.That's why I had all that part wrong in the bimonthly exam lalala(8)..i LIKE IT CARO keep getting better :D
ReplyDeleteHi Carolina I really enjoy reading your blog, Julia Alvarez is a great writer specially because her stories are about immigrants and she usually writes about her own experience when her family and her needed to go back to the United States. Take care:)
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