Dolores Prida

Dolores Prida (September 5, 1943 – January 20, 2013 ) was a Cuban-American columnist and playwright.

She wrote for a weekly column of the El Diario La Prensa. She also contributed to Latina magazine and the New York Daily News. At Latina she wrote her "Dolores Dice" ("Dolores says" in Spanish) column. Beggars Soap Opera (1979) Coser y Cantar (1981) This is considered her best known one act plays. Pantallas (1986) Botánica (1991) He said that Prida "has a good ear for New York Hispanic street language, and this cast exploits it so hilariously that at times even a viewer with no Spanish may want to set aside the simultaneous translation earphones and take it in raw: the grimaces and gestures reveal what is meant, and the sound is too good to miss."