{"id":206264,"date":"2023-11-07T08:12:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T12:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=206264"},"modified":"2023-11-07T09:06:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T13:06:07","slug":"honoring-the-life-of-manuel-mora-serrano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/11\/07\/honoring-the-life-of-manuel-mora-serrano\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring the life of Manuel Mora Serrano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Manuel-Mora-Serrano-Diario-Libre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152725\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Manuel-Mora-Serrano-Diario-Libre.jpg 546w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Manuel-Mora-Serrano-Diario-Libre-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The winner of the 2021 National Literature Award, Manuel Mora Serrano, died on Thursday, 2 November 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A native of Pimentel in Duarte province, 90-year old Mora Serrano was a narrator, essayist, poet, teacher, columnist, literary researcher and lawyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He graduated in law and worked in the courts system in the 60s, but is best known for his literary works and his culture-focused writing in different media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was awarded the National Literature Prize in 2021. In 1979 he won the Siboney Prize for his novel \u201cGoe\u00edza,\u201d a work dedicated to Ciguapa, a popular character in Dominican mythology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A biography published in Listin Diario highlights that among Mora Serrano\u2019s better-known works are Goe\u00edza, Juego de Dom\u00ednos, Espa\u00f1ol 6: Dominican and Hispano-American Literature, Decir Sam\u00e1n, Poetic Anthology of Domingo Moreno Jim\u00e9nez. Also, The Price of Fervor, The Day God Hears the Poor, Celebration of Dark Wine, Revelations of Pimentel, El \u00c1ngel Pl\u00e1cido, Postumism and Vedrinism, and First Dominican avant-gardes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/20231103\/muere-manuel-mora-serrano-ganador-premio-nacional-literatura-2021_781191.html\">Listin Diario <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/manuel-mora-serrano\/\">El Dia <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 November 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winner of the 2021 National Literature Award, Manuel Mora Serrano, died on Thursday, 2 November 2023. A native of Pimentel in Duarte province, 90-year old Mora Serrano was a narrator, essayist, poet, teacher, columnist, literary researcher and lawyer. He graduated in law and worked in the courts system in the 60s, but is best &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/11\/07\/honoring-the-life-of-manuel-mora-serrano\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[319,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206346,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206264\/revisions\/206346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}