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.{{Cite web|url=https://operaprojects2.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/dolores-m-koch-1928-2009/|title=Dolores M. Koch, 1928-2009|date=2009-07-14|website=Have a Voice|language=en|access-date=2019-09-15}}
Koch completed her higher education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.Dolores M. Koch. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/20541934 "El micro-relato en México: Torri, Arreola, Monterroso y Avilés Fabila"], Hispamérica, published by: Saul Sosnowski, Año 10, Number 30, December 1981, page 123. She received her PhD in Latin American Literature in 1986, 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{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/30/books/cuba-libre.html|title=Cuba Libre|last=Ruta|first=Suzanne|date=2001-09-30|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-09-15|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} was adapted to a film of the same name.{{Cite web|url=http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/specials/arenas-night.html|title=NYTimes|website=movies2.nytimes.com|access-date=2019-09-15}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/320981/before-night-falls-by-reinaldo-arenas/|title=Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books|website=PenguinRandomhouse.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-15}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-670-84078-6|title=Before Night Falls|last=|first=|date=|website=www.publishersweekly.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150406043303/http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-670-84078-6 |archive-date=2015-04-06 |access-date=2019-09-15}}
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.
References
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Further reading
- https://rbsc.princeton.edu/collections/dolores-koch-collection-reinaldo-arenas
External links
- [http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/pacscl/PRIN_MUDD_C0984USNjP Dolores Koch collection of Reinaldo Arenas]{{Dead link|date=May 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} at [https://library.princeton.edu/special-collections/welcome Princeton University Library Special Collections]
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