Magali García Ramis
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| Magali García Ramis | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1946 Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Occupation | writer |
| Nationality | Puerto Rican |
Magali García Ramis (1946- ) is a Puerto Rican writer.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early years
Magali García Ramis was born in 1946 in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Her parents were divorced and she lived with her mother and her mother’s family (with uncles, cousins and her grandmother).[1] Although she knew her father, he never visited her because he worked everyday in the military. Her mother and aunts worked in a laboratory that her oldest aunt opened.
When Magali was a teenager, her family moved and she studied in a Catholic school. The teachers and students in that school believed that American and Catholic ideas were better than those of Puerto Rican culture. [2] Magali always struggled with this idea and in college she learned more about Puerto Rican culture. This theme can be found in her literary work.
[edit] Education and literary contributions
In 1964 she enrolled at the University of Puerto Rico where she majored in History. After graduating, she worked for the newspaper El Mundo. In 1968 she received a scholarship and moved to New York to study journalism in Columbia University. It is in New York that she writes her first story, "Todos los domingos" ("Every Sunday"). With this story she won first prize in the literary contest of the Ateneo Puertorriqueño. (Puerto Rican Athenaeum). She returns to Puerto Rico in 1971 and starts to work for the newspaper El imparcial. She worked for the newspaper until 1972. She also worked for a literary magazine called Avance until 1973. During this period she continues to write short stories.
She sends a book composed of 4 short stories to a contest called Casa de las Américas (House of the Americas) in Cuba. She received an honorary mention for one of the stories “La viuda de Chencho el Loco” (‘’”The widow of Chencho, the crazy) which was published in 1974. That same year she moves to Mexico. She returns to Puerto Rico in 1977 and published another book of short stories called "La familia de todos nosostros". She also starts to work for the School of Communications of Puerto Rico. She routinely collaborated in several Puerto Rican newspapers. She finishes her famous semi-autographical[3] novel "Felices Días Tío Sergio" ("Happy Days, Uncle Sergio") in 1985 and is published in 1986. In 1988, she receives a "Beca Guggenheim" for her second novel, "Las horas del Sur" ("The hours of the South"). In 1993, Magali publishes "La Ciudad que me Habita" ("The city that inhabits me"), a collection of journalistic essays that she wrote while she worked for El Mundo, El Imparcial, Avance, Claridad y La Hora.
[edit] Themes and influences
Magali’s stories are depictions of Puerto Rican culture, family and politics. She writes about interactions within a family, Puerto Rican identity and women's identity.[4]
[edit] Literary Works
- La familia de todos nosotros (short stories)
- La Ciudad que me habita (journalistic essays)
- Las noches de Riel de Oro (short stories)
- Felices Días, Tío Sergio (novel)
- Las Horas del Sur (novel)
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