Manuel del Cabral tavares
Manuel del Cabral (7 March 1907 – 14 May 1999) was a Dominican poet, writer, and diplomat. The son of Mario Fermín Cabral y Báez, an influential senator during the "Era of Trujillo", he served at the Embassy of the Dominican Republic to Argentina. During his long stay in Buenos Aires, he married an Argentine and fathered his 4 children, among them, the television journalist and politician Peggy Cabral.
Manuel del Cabral tavares
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- Name
- Manuel del Cabral
- Birth Name
- Manuel Antonio Cabral Tavárez
- Born
- 7 March 1907
- Birthplace
- Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
- Place of death
- Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- Occupation
- Writer
- Spouse
- Alba María Cornero
- Nationality
- Dominican Republic
- Languages
- Spanish
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Manuel del Cabral (7 March 1907 – 14 May 1999) was a Dominican poet, writer, and diplomat. The son of Mario Fermín Cabral y Báez, an influential senator during the "Era of Trujillo", he served at the Embassy of the Dominican Republic to Argentina. During his long stay in Buenos Aires, he married an Argentine and fathered his 4 children, among them, the television journalist and politician Peggy Cabral.
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Manuel del Cabral tavares (1907–1999) was a diplomat, poet and prose writer, among other activities, a national of Dominican Republic. The diplomat was born in Santiago de los Caballeros and died in Santo Domingo. Languages used include Spanish.
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Biography
In 1992 he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura.
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Key facts
• Name — Manuel del Cabral • Birth Name — Manuel Antonio Cabral Tavárez • Born — 7 March 1907 • Birthplace — Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic • Died — 7 March 1907 • Place of death — Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic • Occupation — Writer • Spouse — Alba María Cornero • Children — Peggy, Alejandro, Amelia & Chinchina Cabral
Diplomacy
Diplomacy
Manuel del Cabral was ambassador to the United States, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Spain and Argentina. In the late 1950s he defected and sought political asylum in Argentina, where he lived for 17 years with his family.
Works
Works
• Trópico Negro. 1942 • Compadre Mon. Espiral, Colombia 1943 • Chinchina Busca el Tiempo. Perlado, Buenos Aires 1945 (Ed. de Colores, Santo Domingo 1998) • De Este Lado del Mar. Impresora Dominicana, Ciudad Trujillo 1949 • Antología Tierra (1930–1949). Ediciones Cultura Hispánica, Madrid 1949 • Carta a Rubén. Madrid 1950 • Los Huéspedes Secretos. Madrid 1950 (Ed. Corripio, Santo Domingo 1988), • Segunda Antología Tierra (1930–1951). Gráficas García, Madrid 1951 • 30 Parábolas. Lucania, Buenos Aires 1956 • Antología Clave (1930–1956). Losada, Buenos Aires 1957 • 14 Nudos de Amor. Losada, Buenos Aires 1963 • El Escupido. Quintaria, Buenos Aires 1970 (Ed. de Colores, Santo Domingo 1987) • El Presidente Negro. Ediciones Carlos Lohlé, Buenos Aires 1973 (Canahuate, Santo Domingo 1990) • Poemas de Amor y Sexo. Ediciones de la Flor, Buenos Aires 1974 • Cuentos. Ediciones Orión, Buenos Aires 1976 • Antología Tres. Editora Universitaria, Santo Domingo 1983 • Obra Poética Completa, Ed. Alfa & Omega, Santo Domingo 1987 • Antología Poética, E. Biblioteca Nacional, Buenos Aires 1998. • Antología de Cuentos, E. Biblioteca Nacional, Buenos Aires 1998.
Identity
Identity
Manuel del Cabral tavares is recorded as a citizen of Dominican Republic. Recorded with the occupation prose writer.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1907
Manuel del Cabral tavares was born on 7 March 1907.
1999
Manuel del Cabral tavares died on 14 May 1999.
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Santiago de los Caballeros.
Birth place
Santo Domingo.
Death place
Work and reception
Cabral has become one of the most celebrated writers of the Dominican Republic, enjoying international fame. His work is most often viewed as an essential representation of Afro-Antillean or Afro-Caribbean poetry, known alternatively as negrismo or poesía negra (black poetry) in Spanish, along with the works of Cuban Nicolás Guillén and Puerto Rican Luis Palés Matos. Cabral is known for his vast exploration of themes. Perennial human concerns such as love, death, metaphysics, and war occur throughout his writings. Additionally, social and political issues, especially those involving Antillean and Dominican identity, as well as the exploitation of Afro-Caribbeans are prominent in his writings. Cabral first gained recognition with Compadre Mon (1943), often considered the best example of a Dominican Epic. Compadre Mon, like Trópico Negro and other major works, center around themes of labor and social injustice.
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- 1.Irrizari, Evelyn. La vida junto a Peña era diferente todos los días. El Caribe. 1 May 2013.
- 2.Hoy. Celebran 101 aniversario del natalicio del poeta nacional Manuel del Cabral. 10 October 2008.
- 3.See Burdiez 241 and Torres-Saillant's Caribbean Poetics 51
- 4.See Bejel 234 and Burdiez 15
- 5.See Rodríguez 263
- 6.See Rodríguez 263 and Burdiez 17
Bibliography printed in the source article · 8
- Wena Monica Palmer: Social consciousness and compromiso in selected writings of Manuel del Cabral. University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, 1982
- Gutiérrez, Franklin. Antología histórica de la poesía dominicana del siglo XX (1912–1995). New York: Ediciones Alcance, 1995.
- Diaz, Andrés Blanco. Manuel del Cabral y su obra: comentarios y critica. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Comisión Permanente de la Feria del Libro, 2001.
- Bejel, Emilio. "Poetry." A History of Literature in the Caribbean. Vol. 1. Arnold, A. James. Ed. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1994.
- Torres-Saillant, Silvio. "Dominican Literature and Its Criticism: Anatomy of a Troubled Identity." A History of Literature in the Caribbean. Vol. 1. Arnold, A. James. Ed. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1994.
- Torres-Saillant, Silvio. Caribbean Poetics: Towards an Aesthetic of West Indian Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- Rodríguez, Linda M. "Dominican Republic." Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature. Ed. Verity Smith. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.
- Burdiez, Tómas Castro. Ed. La magia de lo permanente: antología poética de Manuel del Cabral. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Editorial Ciguapa, 2001.
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