Julia Alvarez is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997).
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In their own words 10
Writing is hard work, a huge commitment of time, energy, faith, passion, and there’s nothing shameful in the attempt, even if the work doesn’t end up succeeding.
interview (2019)
what I know from experience: that writing is a vocation and a practice over a lifetime, with its ups and downs.
interview (2019)
Even though they’re that unit of four sisters, they’re also individuals.
On the individual journeys of the female protagonists in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
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Demián BichirAlso in In the Time of the Butterflies (2001)
Mía MaestroAlso in In the Time of the Butterflies (2001)
Edward James OlmosAlso in In the Time of the Butterflies (2001)
Ana MartínAlso in In the Time of the Butterflies (2001)
Marc AnthonyAlso in In the Time of the Butterflies (2001)
Ana LayevskaAlso in In the Time of the Butterflies (2001)About this person
Julia Alvarez is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997). Her publications as a poet include Homecoming (1984) and The Woman I Kept to Myself (2004), and as an essayist the autobiographical compilation Something to Declare (1998). She has achieved critical and commercial success on an international scale and many literary critics regard her to be one of the most significant contemporary Latina writers.
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