Dolores M. Koch Explained

Dolores Mercedes Koch (née Gonzalez, 1928 - 11 June 2009) was a Cuban American literary critic and translator who was a pioneer in the area of microfiction.

Biography

Koch was born in Havana, Cuba in 1928.^[1]

Koch completed her higher education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.^[2] She received her PhD in Latin American Literature in 1986, and in addition to her work on microfiction, translated to English several important Spanish-language works, including those of Laura Restrepo, Jorge Bucay, Alina Fernández, Emily Schindler, Enrique Joven, and her compatriot Reinaldo Arenas, whose work Before Night Falls^[3] was adapted to a film of the same name.^{[4] [5] [6]}

Her article (in Spanish) "El micro-relato en México: Torri, Arreola, Monterroso y Avilés Fabila", published in 1981, is the first critical work on microfiction in the Spanish-speaking world.

Koch died at her home in New York on 11 June 2009.

Further reading

• https://rbsc.princeton.edu/collections/dolores-koch-collection-reinaldo-arenas

External links

• Dolores Koch collection of Reinaldo Arenas at Princeton University Library Special Collections

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dolores M. Koch, 1928-2009. 2009-07-14. Have a Voice. en. 2019-09-15.
2. Dolores M. Koch. "El micro-relato en México: Torri, Arreola, Monterroso y Avilés Fabila", Hispamérica, published by: Saul Sosnowski, Año 10, Number 30, December 1981, page 123.
3. News: Cuba Libre. Ruta. Suzanne. 2001-09-30. The New York Times. 2019-09-15. en-US. 0362-4331.
4. Web site: NYTimes. movies2.nytimes.com. 2019-09-15.
5. Web site: Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books. PenguinRandomhouse.com. en-US. 2019-09-15.
6. Web site: Before Night Falls. www.publishersweekly.com. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20150406043303/http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-670-84078-6 . 2015-04-06 . 2019-09-15.