Magaly Quiñones Explained

Marta Magaly Quiñones Perez (born 1945) is a Puerto Rican poet.

Quiñones was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1945.^[1] She began working as a librarian at the University of Puerto Rico in 1973 and earned a Masters of Comparative Literature from the university in 1981.

She has written poetry, short stories, essays, criticisms and reviews, including at least 14 published volumes.^[2] She published her first collection of poems, Spanish; Castilian: Entre mi voz y el tiempo, in 1969.^[3] Her 1985 poetry collection, Spanish; Castilian: Nombrar, was honored with a Puerto Rican PEN Club award and a prize from publisher Ediciones Mairena.^[4] Her poetry often explores the complicated nature of Caribbean identity.^[5] From 2020 to 2024 various personalities and cultural institutions support the movement for Magaly Quiñones to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Works

• Entre mi voz y el tiempo (1969)
• Era que el mundo era (1974)
• Zambayllu (1976)
• Cosas de poetas (1978)
• Cantándole a la noche misma (1978)
• En la pequeña antilla (1982)
• Nombrar (1985)
• Razón de lucha, razón de amor (1989)
• Sueños de papel (1996)
• Patio de fondo (2003)
• Mi mundo: palabra de niños (2004)
• Poemas para los pequeños (2006)
• Quiero una noche azul (2007)
• Nana para el niño Jesús (Tiempo Nuevo, 2008) y (Editorial Raíces, 2023)
• Pasión y libertad (2008)^[2]
• La muñeca (2013)
• Antología de poemas escogidos - Anthology of selected poems (2018)
• Cómo se dice (Editorial Raíces, 2024)

Notes and References

1. MaComère . Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars . 2002 . 5 . 297 . Magaly Quiñones.
2. 41350555 . Un poemario amoroso de Magaly Quiñones . Ángel M. . Aguirre . Confluencia . 27 . 1 . Fall 2011 . 188—190 . es.
3. News: En las letras, desde Puerto Rico: Magaly Quiñones, en su propia voz . Carlos Esteban . Cana . 3 July 2014 . El Post Antillano . es . 19 March 2023.
4. Web site: Quiñones, Magaly 1945– . encyclopedia.com . Cenage . 2019 . 19 March 2023.
5. 40986208 . Caribbean Identity: An Hispanic Caribbean Perspective . Nicole . Roberts . Journal of Caribbean Literatures . 4 . 3 . Spring 2007 . 29—49.