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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.

Koch completed her higher education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. 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 was adapted to a film of the same name.

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.

References

1. ^ "Dolores M. Koch, 1928-2009". Have a Voice. 2009-07-14. Retrieved 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. Ruta, Suzanne (2001-09-30). "Cuba Libre". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
4. "NYTimes". movies2.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
5. "Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
6. "Before Night Falls". www.publishersweekly.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-06. Retrieved 2019-09-15.

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

• 1928 births
• 2009 deaths
• 20th-century Cuban women writers
• 20th-century translators
• 20th-century American writers
• 20th-century Cuban writers
• 20th-century American women writers
• 21st-century American women
• Writers from Havana
• Cuban emigrants to the United States
• Spanish–English translators
• American literary critics
• American women literary critics
• CUNY Graduate Center alumni
• American writers of Cuban descent