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.[1]

Dolores Koch received her PhD in Latin American Literature from the City University of New York, 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[2] was adapted to a film of the same name.[3][4][5]

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.

Koch died at her home in New York on 11 June 2009.[1]

References
  1. "Dolores M. Koch, 1928-2009". Have a Voice. 2009-07-14. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
  2. Ruta, Suzanne (2001-09-30). "Cuba Libre". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
  3. "NYTimes". movies2.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
  4. "Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
  5. "Before Night Falls". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2019-09-15.

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