Dolores Prida

About Dolores Prida
Dolores Prida is a well-known Cuban play writer, poet, director and editor who was born on the 5th of September 1943 in the Caribbean (Cuba).
When she was 17, she immigrated to the United States together with her family after the revolution in Cuba and Castro reaching power.
When she was young she wrote poems and short stories, but it was in the United States that she developed her skills for arts, and specially, for drama.
Because of her humble origins, she ensures he had never seen a play or exposed to literature or gone to see a play until she immigrated to New York City, where, instead of earning a university degree, she took literature courses at Hunter College night school, and started a successful career in journalism, writing and editing for New York’s Spanish-language daily, El Tiempo, as well as Visión, Nuestro and AHA!. This last one was the monthly newsletter of the Association of Hispanic Arts.
"I love learning and I'm an avid reader," Prida said, "but for writing, you don't need a diploma-it's not like being a dentist."
In 1967, she published her first work Treinta y un poemas. Two years later, un 1969, she received the Excellence in the Arts Award for her work.
Throughout her career, Prida has been awarded in numerous occasions. She is specially well-known for winning the Cintas Fellowship award for literature in 1977, which she used to publish and produce her first play: Beautiful Señoritas. It was an overwhelming success.
Much of her work was written for the experimental theater Duo in New York, but she also wrote for groups such as the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater. Prida also continued to work as a journalist, with her work appearing in numerous publications. At times she also worked as an editor and a speechwriter. She also taught and lectured on writing at a number of colleges and universities, and became a contributing editor for Latina magazine, which was launched in 1996.
She also received the CAPS...