El seis de mayo/May 6th
¡Feliz cumpleaños a ... Angela Hernández Nuñez! (1954- ) Photo from alternativasnoticias.com, in a 2016 announcement that Hernández had been awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura in the Dominican Republic. Click HERE . A writer from the Dominican Republic who won the Premio Nacional de Literatura there in 2016, Hernández was born and raised in Jarabacoa. She graduated with a degree in chemical engineering from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo and was even a professor there before turning to writing full-time. As she told a group of students in March of 2016 "I could not escape my vocation as a writer. After studying Chemical engineering, I had to accept that the only work in which I felt free to create and didn't feel like I was working was this one, being a writer" ( No podía evadir mi vocación de escribir, luego de estudiar ingeniería Química, tuve que aceptar que, en la única labor que podía sentirme libre de crear y no creer qu...