Néstor Amarilla Explained

Nestor Amarilla
Birth Date:July 24, 1980
Birth Place:Paraguay
Occupation:Playwright
Genre:Drama and comedy

Néstor Salvador Amarilla Acosta (born July 24, 1980) is a playwright from Paraguay.

Career

Hector Amarilla was born July 24, 1980, in Colonia Genaro Romero, near the town of Coronel Oviedo in Paraguay.[1] His father was persecuted by the regime of Alfredo Stroessner. When he was 17 years old he went to the US to study on a scholarship; he completed the US high school requirements then enrolled in Metropolitan State University in Minnesota.[1] [2]

In 2005, his play, “La Pruebera”, was staged in Minneapolis.[3]

In 2006, he co-authored a play with Yacoub Aljaffery called "Born in Iraq" that describes life under the regime of Saddam Hussein, and the two formed a production company called Earth Speak that presented the play at the Mixed Blood Theater in Minneapolis. Amarilla had met Aljaffery while tutoring him in Spanish at Minneapolis Community and Technical College; Aljaffery had grown up under the regime and his father had been murdered by soldiers.[4]

In 2006, he authored another play called "Saved by a Poem", based on the story of his grandmother saving his father's life by submitting a poem to a national competition to honor Stroessner's birthday.[5]

He authored a play about his own experiences under the Stroessner regime called "Fecha Feliz" that was performed in Paraguay in 2009, following some problems with Canal 13 preventing its star from performing.[6] [7] [8]

In 2010, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize of Literature by Professor Fulvia Sanchez de Coronel and artist Joel Filártiga, as one of several hundred names submitted for consideration to the Swedish Academy from writers and academics around the world.[9] [10] [11]

In 2011, his play, “La Pruebera”, was staged in Paraguay; on the same name he released a book of the same name.[3]

Plays written

Books

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Escritor paraguayo de 30 años es el favorito para alzar el Nobel de Literatura . El Mercurio. 1 October 2010. es-LA.
  2. News: Drobac. JC. Paraguayan Metropolitan State University student rolls difficult and impoverished life experiences into intriguing plays. The Metropolitan Online. September 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20060904075122/http://themetropolitan.metrostate.edu/September2005/092005001.html. 4 September 2006.
  3. News: "La Pruebera" se estrena hoy en el "Salazar". La Nacion. 19 April 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20111003002255/http://www.lanacion.com.py/articulo.php?la-pruebera-se-estrena-hoy-en-el-salazar&edicion=2&sec=9&art=19998. 3 October 2011.
  4. News: "Born in Iraq" gives a different perspective on conflict. Minnesota Public Radio. July 5, 2006 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110608194703/http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/07/05/borniniraq/ . June 8, 2011 . Ambar . Espinoza.
  5. News: Grant. David. Political Theatre (a Teatro del Pueblo festival at Intermedia Arts). Liberator Magazine. July–August 2006.
  6. News: DOliveira dejó Fecha Feliz por exigencias de su canal. UltimaHora. 1 February 2009. es.
  7. News: D'Oliveira fue obligado a dejar elenco de teatro. Digital abc. 1 February 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20100909064637/http://archivo.abc.com.py/2009-02-01/articulos/491890/doliveira-fue-obligado-a-dejar-elenco-de-teatro. 9 September 2010. es.
  8. News: El amor en tiempos de dictadura. UltimaHora. February 11, 2009. es.
  9. News: Grossman. Mary Ann. Paraguayan playwright, Nobel nominee got his start in St. Paul. Twin Cities Pioneer Press. February 24, 2010.
  10. News: Poets poised for Nobel glory; Swede is favourite. Reuters. September 29, 2010.
  11. https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/literature/ Nomination and Selection of Literature Laureates

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