Author · Dominican Republic
Hilma Contreras
Died in 2006
Hilma Contreras was born in San Francisco de Macorís, on 8 December 1913 (in 1910 according to Acento), the daughter of the surgeon Darío Contreras. Raised in France, she studied French, literature and archaeology there, and returned home in 1933. Juan Bosch published her first story in 1937. Above all a short-story writer, she was in 2002 the first woman to receive the national prize for literature, and died in her native town on 15 January 2006.
In the catalogue 1
- NovelLa tierra está bramandoHilma Contreras · 1986not translated into EnglishLiterature