Magaly Quiñones
Puerto Rican poet
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Marta Magaly Quiñones Perez (born 1945) is a Puerto Rican poet.
Quiñones was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1945.[1] She began working as a librarian at the University of Puerto Rico in 1973 and earned a Masters of Comparative Literature from the university in 1981.[1]
She has written poetry, short stories, essays, criticisms and reviews, including at least 14 published volumes.[1][2] She published her first collection of poems, Entre mi voz y el tiempo, in 1969.[3] Her 1985 poetry collection, Nombrar, was honored with a Puerto Rican PEN Club award and a prize from publisher Ediciones Mairena.[4] Her poetry often explores the complicated nature of Caribbean identity.[5] From 2020 to 2024 various personalities and cultural institutions[who?] support the movement for Magaly Quiñones to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.[citation needed]
Works
- Entre mi voz y el tiempo (Editorial Juan Ponce de León, 1969)
- Era que el mundo era (Impresora Nacional, 1974)
- Zambayllu (1976)
- Cosas de poetas, cosas nuestras (1977)
- Cantándole a la noche misma (1978)
- En la pequeña antilla (Ediciones Mairena, 1982)
- Nombrar (Ediciones Mairena, 1985)
- Razón de lucha, razón de amor (Ediciones Mairena, 1989)
- Sueños de papel (Colección Aquí y Ahora, Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1996)
- Patio de fondo (Editorial del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 2003)
- Mi mundo: palabra de niños (Editorial del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 2004)
- Poemas para los pequeños (Ediciones Puerto, 2006)
- Quiero una noche azul (La Editorial, Universidad de Puerto Rico, 2007)
- Nana para el niño Jesús (Tiempo Nuevo, 2008) y (Editorial Raíces, 2023)
- Pasión y libertad (2008)[2]
- La muñeca (Ediciones Mairena, 2013)
- Antología de poemas escogidos - Anthology of selected poems (Publicaciones Gaviota, 2018)
- Cómo se dice (Editorial Raíces, 2024)