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Jeannette Miller
Born
Jeannette de los Ángeles Miller Rivas

(1944-08-02) 2 August 1944 (age 79)
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
NationalityDominican
Alma materUniversidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo,

Jeannette Miller (Jeannette de los Ángeles Miller Rivas, born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on 2 August 1944)[1] is a writer, poet, narrator essayist and art historian of Dominican art.[2][3] She was awarded the National Literature prize from her country in 2011.[4][5][1]

Biography

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Miller was the daughter of writer Fredy Miller and Rosa Rivas.[6] Her father's own role as a writer influenced her from an early age,[7] although was a was assassinated by the Trujillo regime on 5 May 1959.[8]

She completed her primary education at Colegio María Auxiliadora and her high school education at Colegio Apostolado de Santo Domingo.[9] She earned her BA in Literature at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo,[6][1] where she later taught.[10] She also taught at the Universidad Central del Este, the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Seminario Arquidiocesano Santo Tomás de Aquino and at the Centro Bonó.[1]

From 1965 to 1970 she lived in Madrid, Spain, where she studied X Curso Iberoamericano (1966-1967) for Spanish language professors at the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica. During that period, she took classes with Manuel Criado de Val, Carlos Bousoño and other distinguished professors. In 1967, she taught Curso de Desarrollo Comunitario at the Instituto León XIII de Madrid. And, in 1976, she participated in the Seminario Museología y Arte with professor Donald B. Goddall, under the auspices of The Southern Consortium for International Education, at the ICDA, Santo Domingo.

Miller was a leading figure of the so-called Generation of '60,[4][11] which later became the Arte y Liberación (1962) movement and then El Puño,[8] together with Miguel Alfonseca, Silvano Lora, José Ramírez Conde, René del Risco, Jacques Viau and others.[4][12][13]

Her creative and intelectual activity encompasses poetry, narrative, essay, criticism and art history.[9] Her articles on art criticism have been published by the newspapers El Caribe and Hoy.[7] In 2000, she was Director of the Cultural Supplement ESPACIOS, for El Caribe and she is a member of the Academia Dominicana de la Historia.[3][14]

In 2006, Alfaguara published her novel La vida es otra cosa, which became a bestseller in Dominican literature.

She has been a juror in national and international Literature and Plastic Arts competitions. She was a founding member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art of Santo Domingo and of the Casa del Escritor Dominicano. In 1975, she received the Investigación Teatro Nacional award and the Comisión Jurídica de la Mujer from the United Nations. In 1976, she was awarded the Crónica y Crítica de Arte Fundación Pellerano Alfau award.

In 1977, she won the Silver Supreme Joyces (Premio Supremo de Plata Joyces),[4] awarded to the ten most outstanding young people in the Dominican Republic, as well as the Annual Award in the 1997 Art Book category from the Asociación Puertorriqueña de Críticos de Arte.[9]

In 2007, she was awarded the Premio Nacional Feria del Libro “Eduardo León Jimenes”, for her book Importancia del contexto histórico en el desarrollo del arte dominicano, within the framework of the 2007 International Book Fair.[1]

In el 2010, She was awarded the Premio Nacional de Cuento José Ramón López for her book A mí no me gustan los boleros.[5] That same year, she was also awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura,[4] sponsored by the Fundación Corripio and the Ministerio de Cultura.[15] Her literary work has been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese and German, and appears in major studies and anthologies on Caribbean literature.

Work

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Poetry

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Art history/criticism

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Narrative

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Essay

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Miscellaneous

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Jeannette Miller, Premio Nacional de Literatura 2011". Ultimo Diario. 27 January 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  2. ^ "La crítica de arte en Jeannette Miller". Hoy Digital. 2021-12-04. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
  3. ^ a b Pereyra, Emilia (16 March 2021). "Jeannette Miller ingresa como miembro de número de la Academia Dominicana de la Historia". Diario Libre. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Foundation, Poetry (2022-12-26). "Jeannette Miller". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
  5. ^ a b BERRIDO, OFELIA (27 November 2021). "La crítica de arte en Jeannette Miller 1 de 2". Hoy: Guardianes de la Verdad. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  6. ^ a b c d e "Jeannette Miller | The Modern Novel". www.themodernnovel.org. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
  7. ^ a b Pujols, Daniela (30 May 2015). "Jeannette Miller en primera fila". Listin Diario. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  8. ^ a b c d e Báez, Frank (June 2008). "ENTREVISTA A JEANNETTE MILLER". Revista Global. 22.
  9. ^ a b c "Jeannette Miller". Latin Art Museum. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  10. ^ "Jeannette Miller | The Modern Novel". www.themodernnovel.org. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  11. ^ a b c d "Back Matter". Afro-Hispanic Review. 27 (2). 2008 – via JSTOR.
  12. ^ Maríñez, Sophie (2018). Masacre de 1937. 80 Años Después: Reconstruyendo La Memoria (in Spanish). Dominican Republic: Fundación Juan Bosch. p. 298.
  13. ^ a b del Campo, Paloma Jiménez (2015). "https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2795&context=inti". INTI: Revista de Literatura Hispánica. 1 (81): 411. ((cite journal)): External link in |title= (help)
  14. ^ "Jeannette Miller ingresa como miembro de número de la Academia Dominicana de la Historia". Expresion Popular. 16 March 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  15. ^ "Jeanette Miller wins Literature Award". DR1.com. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
  16. ^ a b Bankay, Anne María (1993). "Contemporary Women Poets of the Dominican Republic: Perspectives on Race and Other Social Issues". Afro-Hispanic Review. 12 (1): 34–41 – via JSTOR.
  17. ^ "Realizan café literario con la escritora Jeannette Mille". Municipios Al Día. 14 June 2013. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  18. ^ Virginia, Goris (30 September 2007). "En honor al Poeta de las Formas". Listin Diario. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  19. ^ a b "Jeannette Miller". www.loqueleo.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  20. ^ Miller, Jeannette (November 2004). "Pottery as Identity". Ceramics Technical (19): 84–87 – via EbscoHost.
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