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Jeannette Miller

b. 1944

Dominican writer and poet

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Born 1944. Jeannette Miller is a Dominican writer and poet.

Jeannette Miller (Jeannette de los Ángeles Miller Rivas, born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on 2 August 1944) is a writer, poet, narrator essayist and art historian of Dominican art. She was awarded the National Literature prize from her country in 2011. Her father's own role as a writer influenced her from an early age, although he was assassinated by the Trujillo regime on 5 May 1959.

She completed her primary education at Colegio María Auxiliadora and her high school education at Colegio Apostolado de Santo Domingo. She earned her BA in literature at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, She also taught at the Universidad Central del Este, the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Seminario Arquidiocesano Santo Tomás de Aquino and at the Centro Bonó. which later became the Arte y Liberación (1962) movement and then El Puño,

Her creative and intellectual activity encompasses poetry, narrative, essay, criticism and art history.

In 2006, Alfaguara published her novel La vida es otra cosa, which became a bestseller in Dominican literature.

She has been a juror in national and international Literature and Plastic Arts competitions. She was a founding member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art of Santo Domingo and of the Casa del Escritor Dominicano. In 1975, she received the Investigación Teatro Nacional award and the Comisión Jurídica de la Mujer from the United Nations. In 1976, she was awarded the Crónica y Crítica de Arte Fundación Pellerano Alfau award.

In 1977, she won the Silver Supreme Joyces (Premio Supremo de Plata Joyces), Her literary work has been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese and German, and appears in major studies and anthologies on Caribbean literature.

Work Poetry El Viaje (poetry) Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos. Spain, 1967. Fichas de identidad/Estadías (poetry) Editora Taller. Santo Domingo, 1985. Fernando Peña Defilló: Desde el origen hacia la libertad. Ediciones Galería de Arte Moderno. Santo Domingo, 1983. Paisaje dominicano: pintura y poesía. Gatón Arce, Freddy; Miller, Jeannette. Ediciones Empresas BHD. Santo Domingo, 1992. An Approach to Dominican Art 1920-1970. Modern and Contemporary Art of the Dominican Repúblic. Sullivan, Edward; Miller, Jeannette; Tolentino, Marianne y Ferrer, Elizabeth. Americas Society and The Spanish Institute. New York, 1996. José Rincón Mora. Munich, 1996. Arte dominicano, artistas españoles y modernidad: 1920–1961. Miller Jeannette, Ugarte, María. Ediciones Centro Cultural Hispánico and the Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana, Santo Domingo, 1996. Art in Dominican Republic: 1844–2000. Latin American Art in the 20th Century. London, Phaidon Press Limited, 1996 / Madrid, Editorial Nerea, 1998. República Dominicana: arte del siglo XX. Arte latinoamericano y del Caribe al umbral del siglo XXI. UNESCO, Paris, 1999. Domingo Batista: esencia y monumentalidad del paisaje dominicano. Domingo Batista: fotografías dominicanas (art) UNESCO, Consejo Presidencial de Cultura, Santo Domingo, 1999. La verdadera historia de María Cristo (short story). Santillana Santo Domingo, 2015. La mujer en el pensamiento dominicano. Xinesquema. Santo Domingo 2004, Cole. Santo Domingo. Mujer. Mujer. Nicole Sánchez y Giovanna Bonnelly. Ediciones Mercasid, Santo Domingo, 2007. La lectura como liberación e identidad: importancia de los autores nacionales. Areíto. Periódico Hoy. Santo Domingo. 2 August 2008. Rescatando la poesía nacional con la Colección Pensamiento Dominicano. Colección Pensamiento Dominicano, tomo I: Poesía. Publicaciones del Banco de Reservas, Santo Domingo, 2008. Textos sobre arte literatura e identidad. Colección del Banco Central de la República Dominicana. Santo Domingo, 2009. La Mañosa: una excelente fotografía del siglo XX dominicano. Dos coloquios sobre la obra de Juan Bosch. Colección del Banco Central de la República Dominicana. Santo Domingo, 2010. El exilio republicano español y sus aportes a la modernidad en el arte dominicano. El exilio republicano español en la sociedad dominicana. Miller, Jeannette et al. Comisión Permanente de Efemérides Patrias, Archivo General de la Nación, volumen CXIII; Academia Dominicana de la Historia, volumen LXXXIX. Editora Búho. Santo Domingo. March, 2010.

Miscellaneous

El mundo mágico de Gilberto Hernández Ortega (screenplay) Cinemateca Nacional. Santo Domingo, 1979. Ortografía (textbook) Amigo del Hogar. Santo Domingo, 1981. Redacción (textbook) Amigo del Hogar. Santo Domingo, 1983. Cuentos dominicanos (anthology) Editor, selection and prologue. Colección Letra Grande. Co-edition UNESCO and Editora Popular, Paris-Madrid, 2000. Fredy Miller: realidad y leyenda (Editor, selection and prologue). Colección del Banco Central de la República Dominicana, Santo Domingo, 2005. María Ugarte: textos literarios (Editor, selection and prologue). Colección del Banco Central de la República Dominicana, Santo Domingo, 2006.

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Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes
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National School of Visual Arts

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Dominican writer and poet

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Jeannette Miller was born on 2 August 1944 in Santo Domingo.

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