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ed seven stories in
Historias para un buen día
. In August 2005, his story “Urías” won second place in the Città
de Viareggio international story and poetry contest in Italy, promoted by the Il Molo publishing house. His
submission was translated into Italian. In October 2006, Ediciones Cedibil published his novel
El asesino de las
lluvias
, which was translated into Italian by Maria Antonietta Ferro and published in 2007 by Giovane Holden
Editori in Lucca, Italy. In 2009, Editorial Santuario published the novel
Un
árbol
para esconder mariposas
. In
2010, the same publishing house published the book of essays
Gautier visto por Gautier
and the novels
Dimen-
sionando a dios
and
La fascinación de la rosa
. In December 2007, he was nominated as a Correspondent Member
of Academia Dominicana de la Lengua, and a Correspondent of Real Academia Española de la Lengua. He
presented a speech titled “La narrativa dominicana y las expresiones de la lengua (Dominican Narrative and
Language Expressions)” upon his induction into the academy in January 2009. In 2018, he was awarded the
Dominican National Literature Prize.
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Raymundo González
González was born in Santo Domingo in 1961. He received a degree in Economics at Instituto Tecnológico de
Santo Domingo in 1990, and an advanced studies diploma in Humanities through the Department of History
of the Americas at the School of History and Geography of the University of Seville in 2003. He was the coor-
dinator of the Social Sciences department at the Curriculum Administration Division of the Ministry of Educa-
tion. He is a full member of the Dominican Academy of History and of the National Dominican Section of the
Pan American Institute of Geography and History; a history adviser for the Dominican National Archives; and
a professor at Instituto Superior de Formación Docente Salomé Ureña, at Instituto Filosófico Pedro Francisco
Bonó, and at Centro de Estudios Institucionales de Teología. He has published:
Bonó, un intelectual de los pobres,
Santo Domingo, 1994;
De esclavos a campesinos. Vida rural en Santo Domingo colonial,
Santo Domingo, 2011; in
collaboration with Roberto Cassá, Pedro San Miguel, and Michiel Baud,
Política, ideología y pensamiento social
en la república dominicana. Siglos xix y xx
, Madrid, 1999.
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Víctor Manuel Grimaldi Céspedes
Grimaldi Céspedes’ paternal grandfather, Giuseppe Grimaldi Caroprese, arrived in the Dominican Republic
after having fought in World War One (1914-1918). He was a decorated soldier who voluntarily fought in
defense of Italy. He was born in Scalea, Consenza, on March 11, 1891. Víctor Manuel Grimaldi Céspedes was
born in Santo Domingo on December 22, 1949. He has published a novel about Italian immigrants in the
Caribbean, as well as books such as
Golpe y Revolución
, republished by Comision Permanente de Efemerides
Patrias (Standing Committee on National Celebrations). He served as the Controller General of the Domini-
can Republic and as an ambassador to the Holy See.
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Antonio J. Guerra Sánchez
Guerra Sánchez graduated
magna cum laude
with a degree in Civil Engineering from Universidad Nacional
Pedro Henríquez Ureña (1968-1973). He received his master’s degree in Material and Structural Engineering
from the University of Illinois (1973-1974), where he also completed his doctorate in Material and Structural
Engineering (1974-1976). He has worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Materials Engineering
and a part-time professor at the School of Engineering and Technology at both UNPHU and INTEC. He was
the director of the engineering laboratory and a member of the academic committee at UNPHU. He has done
research, written publications, and supervised graduate theses (over 150) related to concrete, structures, and
materials. He is also a private contractor working on the construction of villas, hotels, supermarkets, movie
theaters, schools, and hospitals. He has been a researcher at the Dominican National Archives (AGN) and has
presented at conferences on genealogy and the history of Dominican Independence (the Trinitarios) at the
Dominican National Archives, the Dominican Academy of History, Instituto Duartiano, the Senate of the Do-
minican Republic, the Ministry of Defense, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, among other distinctions. He
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