Soledad Alvarez wins National Literature Award

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The Corripio Foundation and the Ministry of Culture announced Soledad Álvarez was chosen the winner of the National Literature Award. The award winner has been successful in poetry and literary essays.

Jose Luis Corripio, president of the Corripio Foundation, and Culture Minister Milagros German highlighted Alvarez’s valuable work as a writer when making the announcement.

The 32nd National Literature Prize comes with a RD$2 million cash award. The date of the award ceremony is yet to be announced.

Alvarez is an essayist and poet. Her books of poems include “Vuelo posible” (Possible Flight) in 1994 and “Las estaciones íntimas” (Intimate Stations) in 2006. She also wrote “El debate sobre las generaciones” in 1991 and “Complicidades” in 1998.

Born in Santo Domingo in 1950, she studied Philology, specializing in Hispanic American Literature in Cuba, where she...

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