María del Carmen Pérez Cuadra (born November 28, 1971, in Jinotepe, Carazo) is a Nicaraguan writer. She has won multiple awards for her poetry and short narrative writing, and published multiple books. As of December 2020[update], she was a doctoral candidate in Literature at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
María del Carmen Pérez Cuadra | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 28, 1971 Jinotepe, Carazo, Nicaragua |
| Alma mater | Central American University (Managua) |
| Occupation | Writer |
Life
editPérez Cuadra's father was a bricklayer, and her mother was a nursing assistant. She was motivated to become a writer by an interview of Franz Galich that she read in the cultural supplement of a newspaper.[1]
In the late 1990s, Pérez Cuadra moved to Costa Rica to work as a domestic worker to pay for her bachelor's degree, which she received from Central American University (Managua).[1] She later received a master's degree in Latin American and Central American literature from the same university, with a thesis analyzing the writing of Central American short stories during and after the period of the Sandinista revolution.[2][3]
In 2010, Pérez Cuadra and her family moved to Santiago, Chile for work reasons, intending to stay for two years. Their stay lasted longer, and she eventually[when?] applied to the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile as a doctoral candidate in Literature.[1][4] As of December 2020[update], she was still a doctoral candidate there.[1]
Pérez Cuadra's writing often deals with feminist and gay themes,[5][6] although she does not consider herself a feminist writer.[1] Her story "Une ciudad de estatuas y perros" explores migration and culture.[7]
Books
edit- Sin luz artificial: narraciones [Without artificial light: narrations], in Spanish, published 2004[8]
- Une ciudad de estatuas y perros [A city of statues and dogs], in Spanish, published 2014[9]
- Rama. Microficciones [Branch. Microfictions], in Spanish, published 2016[10]
- Isonauta [Isonaut], in Spanish, published 2020[11]
Awards
edit- Rafaela Contreras Central American Short Narrative Prize, 2004[1][better source needed]
- El Cisne National Prize for Unedited Poetry, 2008[1][better source needed]
- María Teresa Sánchez National Prize for Short Narrative, 2014[1][better source needed]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h Maya Avila, Juan de Dios (December 18, 2020). "MARÍA DEL CARMEN PÉREZ CUADRA | FRANQUEAR LO LLANO". El camaleón (in European Spanish). Retrieved May 12, 2021.
- ^ "Maria del Carmen Pérez Cuadra". Asociación Nicaragüense de Escritoras (in Spanish). Archived from the original on February 3, 2017. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
- ^ Pérez Cuadra, María del Carmen (August 2003). Representaciones simbólicas en el discurso narrativo de la cuentística centroamericana posrevolucionaria [Symbolic representations in the narrative discourse of post-revolutionary Central American storytelling] (Thesis) (in Spanish). Central American University. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
- ^ "Spanish 300 Students Interview Author María del Carmen Pérez Cuadra and Illustrator Ángel Emilio Delgado Pérez". University of San Diego. October 1, 2020. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
- ^ Shade, Eunice (October 11, 2005). "El knock out de Pérez Cuadra" [The knock out of Pérez Cuadra]. El Nuevo Diario (in Spanish). Retrieved March 26, 2021.
- ^ Padilla, Yajaira M. (2009). "Of "Diosas, Cochones", and "Pluriempleadas": (En)gendering Central American Identities in Contemporary Short Stories by Women". Letras Femeninas. 35 (2): 91–96, 99–102. ISSN 0277-4356. JSTOR 23024077 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Gianni, Silvia M (June 2016). "Silencios que ensordecen: Resemantización de la ausencia y del silencio en la escritura migrante centroamericana y caribeña" [Silences that deafen: Resemantization of the absence and the silence in Central American and Caribbean migrant writing] (PDF). Boletin AFEHC (in Spanish). 69. Asociación para el Fomento de los Estudios Históricos en Centroamérica. ISSN 1954-3891.[dead link]
- ^ Pérez Cuadra, María del Carmen (2004). Sin luz artificial : narraciones. [Managua, Nicaragua]: Fondo Editorial CIRA. ISBN 99924-61-27-6. OCLC 65187498.
- ^ Pérez Cuadra, María del Carmen (2014). Una ciudad de estatuas y perros (1a ed. Santiago, Das Kapital Ediciones, agosto 2014 ed.). Santiago. ISBN 978-956-8835-47-7. OCLC 900547594.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Cuento actual en español: María del Carmen Pérez Cuadra". Circulo de Poesía (in Mexican Spanish). February 19, 2018. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
- ^ "ISONAUTA – Parafernalia Ediciones Digitales" (in Spanish). July 25, 2020. Retrieved March 26, 2021.