Angela Hernández Núñez | |
Birth Date: | 6 May 1954 |
Birth Place: | Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic |
Nationality: | Dominican |
Citizenship: | Dominican Republic |
Education: | Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo |
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Awards: | Dominican National Literary Award: Short Story (1998) |
Ángela Hernández Núñez (born May 6, 1954) is a writer, educator and feminist in the Dominican Republic.[1]
Núñez was born in Jarabacoa and studied chemical engineering at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. She was the director of the Centro Nacional de Ayuda y Estudio de la Mujer and a member of the Dominican Chapter of Criticism for Latin America. She was an active member of the Circulo de Mujeres Poetas (Circle of Women poets) and a founding member of the Grupo de Mujeres Creadoras (Group of Creative Women).[2]
In 1998 she was awarded the Dominican National Literary Award for her short story, Piedra de Sacrificio.