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Sandra Benitez

Sandra Benitez (March 26, 1941 - July 25, 2024) was an American novelist . Life Sandra Jeanette Ables , better known by her pen name Sandra Benitez (Benitez being her Puerto Ric...

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Sandra Benitez (March 26, 1941 - July 25, 2024) was an American novelist.

Life

Sandra Jeanette Ables, better known by her pen name Sandra Benitez (Benitez being her Puerto Rican mother's maiden name) spent the first fourteen years of her childhood in El Salvador while her father was based there as a diplomat. At the urging of her father, she attended high school in rural, northern Missouri with her paternal grandparents and subsequently graduated with a B.S. (1962) from Northeast Missouri State University. Later she returned to her alma mater to earn an M.A. (1974)[1]

In 1975 she moved with her then husband and two sons to the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota where she would remain for the rest of her life. After teaching and working as a translator she began seriously writing and in 1993, her first novel, A Place Where The Sea Remembers, was published by Coffee House Press.[2]

Benítez has received a Loft-McKnight Award of Distinction for fiction, a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant as well as a 1992 Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship. She was the Hispanic Mentor for The Loft Inroads Program from 1989 to 1992. In 1997 she was selected as the University of Minnesota Edelstein-Keller Distinguished Writer in Residence. In 1998 she did the Writers Community Residency for the YMCA National Writer’s Voice program. In the spring of 2001 she held the Knapp Chair in Humanities as Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of San Diego.[3][4]

Awards

Works

  • A Place Where the Sea Remembers. Simon & Schuster. 1993. ISBN 978-0-671-89267-8.
  • Bitter Grounds. Macmillan. 1998. ISBN 978-0-312-19541-0.
  • The Weight of All Things. Hyperion. 2002. ISBN 978-0-7868-8703-3. Sandra Benitez.
  • Night of the Radishes. Hyperion. January 2004. ISBN 978-0-7868-6400-3.
  • Bag Lady: A Memoir, The Triumphant True Story of Loss, Illness and Recovery. Benitez Books. 2005. ISBN 978-0-9774848-0-5.

Anthologies

  • Mickey Pearlman, ed. (15 de octubre de 1997). «Vistas del hogar» . Un lugar llamado hogar: Veinte escritoras recuerdan . St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-17443-9.
  • Marilyn Kallet, Judith Ortiz Cofer, ed. (1999). «Fuego, cera, humo» . Sleeping with One Eye Open . University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-2153-0.

Referencias

  1. ↑ Nicolás Kanellos (2003). Literatura hispánica de los Estados Unidos: una referencia completa . Greenwood Publishing Group. pág . 78. ISBN  978-1-57356-558-5.
  2. ↑ "Un lugar donde el mar recuerda" . Coffee House Press . 1 de septiembre de 1993. Consultado el 3 de septiembre de 2025 .
  3. ↑ "Voces desde los huecos" .
  4. ↑ "Proyecto de biografías de autores de Minnesota: Sandra Benitez" . Archivado del original el 26 de octubre de 2009. Consultado el 29 de noviembre de 2009 .
  5. ↑ "Premios de la Herencia Hispana para la Literatura" . Fundación de la Herencia Hispana . Consultado el 11 de enero de 2011 .
  6. ↑ "Sandra Benitez" . Artistas de Estados Unidos . Consultado el 28 de agosto de 2018 .
  • "Entrevista con la autora: Sandra Benitez", Exploración de libros
  • Farhat Iftekharrudin, ed. (2003). «Sandra Benítez y el texto nómada» . Enfoques posmodernos del cuento . Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-32374-4.