Alfredo Villanueva Collado

Alfredo Villanueva Collado (Santurce, Puerto Rico, October 16, 1944 – New York City, September 5, 2020) was an openly gay Puerto Rican writer and scholar who taught English literature. He lived in New York City.

Biography He was born on October 16, 1944, in Santurce, Puerto Rico. His parents, Narciso Villanueva and Arminda Collado Martell, were originally from Mayagüez. When he was nine months old, his parents moved to Caracas, Venezuela, where his father had worked previously. He attended the Escuela Experimental Venezuela and the Instituto Escuela. He returned to Puerto Rico when he was fifteen years old, and completed his studies at Colegio San José in 1960.

He studied British literature in Río Piedras at the University of Puerto Rico. For eighteen years, he was the partner of graphic artist Víctor Amador. "Max Nordau, cultura helénica e inversión sexual en De sobremesa, de José Asunción Silva". CiberLetras, vol. 12. "Rene Marqués, Ángel Lozada, and the Constitution of the (Queer) Puerto Rican National Subject". CENTRO Journal, Puerto Rican Queer Studies Issue, Spring 2007.

Awards and Recognitions 2006: First prize, poetry and short story, Casa tomada (New York).