Hilma Contreras

Hilma Contreras Castillo (December 8, 1913 – January 15, 2006) was a Dominican writer, born in San Francisco de Macorís.

She was educated in Paris, where she studied French and English, as well as literature and archaeology. She returned to the Dominican Republic in 1933. In 1937, at the encouragement of fellow writer Juan Bosch, she began writing stories, which were published in various newspapers.

In 2002, she became the first woman to receive the National Literature Award.

Contreras never married or had children, and died in her home town in 2006.[1]

Bibliography
  • Doña Endrina de Catalayud (1952)
  • Cuatro cuentos (1953)
  • El ojo de Dios: cuentos de la clandestinidad (1962)
  • La tierra está bramando (1986)
  • Entre dos silencios (1987)
  • Facetas de la vida (1993)
  • Obras escogidas (to be published)
gollark: Perhaps I should preempt your MUDs with GTech™ GMud™.
gollark: What if we make LyricLy suffer by making a Lisp-based syntax for Macron?
gollark: As Macron dictator I decided to ban global variables.
gollark: There seems to be some repolist-skin thing.
gollark: Surely nobody would willingly ONLY stare at such a bland repolist forever.

References
  1. "Hilma Contreras Castillo (1913-2006)". Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra. 2006. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved September 3, 2009.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.