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Revision as of 19:19, 9 January 2025 by BlkGeneral2000 (talk | contribs) (New page on Dominican writer Manuel Núñez)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) Dominican writer, historian and educator (born 1957)Manuel Núñez (born 1957) is a Dominican linguist, researcher, academic and essayist. As a essayist, he has stood out the most and achieved wide recognition, especially when he ventures from theory, exhaustive analysis and the deconstruction of ideological discourses in the fragmentariness of time, in the changing interstices of historical reality. Today, Núñez is recognized as one of the most infuencial contemporary writers of the Dominican Republic.
He was born in 1957 in the Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. There, Núñez obtained his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Modern Literature from the University of Paris VII (Jussieu Campus) and Paris VIII (Saint Denis Campus). He subsequently devoted himself to applied linguistics and completed his PhD in Applied Linguistics at the University of Antilles Guyane (Fort de France). He has devoted himself to teaching, serving as Professor of Literature in the Foreign Languages Degree Program at the Technological University of Santiago in Santo Domingo (UTESA) —where he directed the Department of Philosophy and Letters—, of Applied Linguistics in the Master's Degree Program in Linguistics at the University of Santo Domingo (UASD), and in the Master's Degree Program in Teaching Spanish at the Technological Institute of Santo Domingo (INTEC). At the Diplomatic School of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as at the School of Advanced Studies of the Ministry of Defense, he teaches the subject of Geopolitics. He is a Full Member of the Dominican Academy of Language. He has been a columnist for the newspapers El Siglo and Hoy . He has been awarded the National Essay Prize twice for his book The Decline of the Dominican Nation (1990) and Peña Batlle in the Era of Trujillo (2008). He has recently ventured into narrative with the novel The Last Sordello (Letra Gráfica, 2021). His published bibliography includes: The Opening of the Sealed Orchard (Boynayel, Mexico, 1985); The Graphic Essence (lithographs by Andrew Vlady, Mexico 1986); Language and Literature I, II, III, IV (Editorial Santillana, 1996-2000); Language, Companion of the Dominican Nation (2003), among other works. His book The Decline of the Dominican Nation won the Eduardo León Jimenes National Book Fair Prize 2002, a second expanded and corrected edition of the previous one.
- "Manuel Núñez, el tránsito del ensayo la ficción narrativa – Miguel Angel Fornerin escritor". fornerin.com. Retrieved 2025-01-09.