Jaime Martínez Tolentino

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Jaime Martínez Tolentino (born January 10, 1943) is a Puerto Rican writer.^[1]

Early life and education

At the age of four, Martinez Tolentino contracted polio, which left him crippled.^[2] In 1951, he and his family emigrated to New York City where he lived until 1966. He attended New York University where he majored in French and French literature, while also studying Spanish literature and German. As an undergraduate he participated actively in the theater.

Academic career

He returned, briefly, to his native Puerto Rico where he was named French professor at The University of Puerto Rico. Then he left for Europe to pursue further studies. In France, he studied French at the Sorbonne, and then he relocated to Spain, where he studied both French and Hispanic literature. He received a PhD in French Literature from the Complutense University of Madrid and then returned to Puerto Rico.^[1][3]

Between 1970 and 1984, Martinez Tolentino taught French at the Mayaguez Campus of the University of Puerto Rico, and he also published three books on French. Also during this period, he published a full-length play, and in 1984, he directed its staged version. One of his short stories was adapted for the stage in Puerto Rico in 1979.^[4]

Writing career

It was also during this period that he joined the group of young Puerto Rican writers connected to the literary magazine Mester: the novelist Carmelo Rodríguez Torres, the narrator Wilfredo Ruiz Oliveras, and the poets Luis Cartañá and Sotero Rivera Avilés. Under their influence, Martinez Tolentino began publishing short stories in journals and newspapers, and in 1975, he edited an anthology of their short stories. In 1980, he published his play La imagen del otro, and three years later, an original collection of short stories of the fantastic.^[5]

As he continued publishing in Spanish, his interest in Hispanic literature grew. He began taking graduate courses in Spanish and Puerto Rican literature, and then taught Spanish literature at the

In 1984, Martinez Tolentino resigned from his position as a French professor. He attended Purdue University in Indiana, where he acquired fluency in Portuguese, and then he transferred to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he received a second M.A. and a second PhD in Spanish and Latin American literature.

In 1990, he became a Spanish professor at the

• "El prefacio de La comedia humana: Un importante documento literario", Atenea (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico), 5.1–2 (1968): 109–116.
• "Las ciencias biológicas en La Comédie Humaine", Filologia Moderna (Madrid, Spain), 40–41 (November 1970 – February 1971): 111–136.
• "De la cognomología en la literatura", La Torre (Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico), 20.75–76 (1972): 161–165.
• "Traducen al francés una novela puertorriqueña", El Mundo (San Juan, Puerto Rico), December 17, 1978: B-22.
• "Una introducción al cuento fantástico", Renacimiento (Río Piedras, Puerto Rico), 1.1 (1981): 15–29.
• "Nueva novela puertorriqueña es 'sensacional'", La Estrella del Oeste (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico), April 21, 1982): 7.
• "Alfonsina Storni y Gabriela Mistral: La poesía como condena o salvación", Escritura (Caracas, Venezuela), 8.16 (1983): 223–230.
• "Mi mamá me ama, de Emilio Díaz Valcárcel: Cómo se satiriza una visión distorsionada de Puerto Rico", Cuadernos Americanos (Mexico, D.F.), 43.252.1 (1984): 216–226.
• "La familia como fuente de todo mal en El obsceno pájaro de la noche, de José Donoso", Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana (Lima, Peru), 11.23 (1986): 73–79.
• "La mujer como némesis del hombre en El túnel", Quaderni Ibero-Americani (Turin, Italy), 16.8.61–62 (December 1986, July – December 1987): 193–200.
• "Algunas observaciones sobre la novela Al filo del agua suscitadas por un ensayo de Alfonso Reyes", Escritura (Caracas, Venezuela), 12.23–24 (1987): 123–137.
• "El salón de Guillermo Martínez", La Estrella de Puerto Rico (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico), August 4–10, 1988: 18.
• "Book Review of In Search of the City: Engels, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, By Marc Eli Blanchard. Romance Quarterly 36.1 (1989): 112–113.
• "Machado y el alma española en 'A orillas del Duero'", Escritura, 15.29 (1990): 85–94.
• "Las opiniones literarias de Julián Del Casal", La Torre (Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico) 5.17 (1991): 19–55.
• "La irrealización del paisaje en María y Cumandá", Texto y Contexto (Bogotá, Colombia), 25 (1994): 126–131.
• "El indiano en tres comedias de Lope de Vega", Teatro (Alcalá de Henares, Spain) 5 (2001): 83–96.
• "La génesis de un drama", Boletín del Archivo Nacional de Teatro y Cine del Ateneo Puertorriqueño, Núm. 4 (julio a diciembre de 2005): 42–45.
• "On Writing 1st Chapters; Dean Koontz's Strangers", April 16, 2001: Barnes & Noble.com
• “Mulberry Street,” published in 3 Installments, November 29, 2012 – December 12, 2012, ANGIE’S DIARY, http://angiesdiary.com/stories/mulberry-street-13/
• “Mami…Papi”, an excerpt from “The Other Island,” ANGIE’S DIARY,December 17, 2012, http://angiesdiary.com/stories/mami-papi/
• Christmas in Puerto Rico, ANGIE’S DIARY, December 24, 2012 http://angiesdiary.com/articles/christmas-in-puerto-rico/
• “An American Baby,” TUCK MAGAZINE, January 16, 2013: http://tuckmagazine.com/2013/01/16/January-fiction/2/
• “The Island Across the River,” published in 8 Installments, from April 27, 2013, to August 5, 2013, Yareah Magazine Issue 36. http://yareah.com/author/jaime-martinez-tolentino/

Published Translations

• Glannon, Walter. "Unamuno y la metafísica de la ficción." Trans. Jaime Martínez-Tolentino. Estelas,laberintos, nuevas sendas: Unamuno, Valle-Inclán, García Lorca, La Guerra Civil. Ed. Angel Loureiro. Barcelona: Editorial Anthropos, 1988: 95–108.
• Benítez-Rojo, Antonio."Fernando Ortiz and Cubanness: A Post-Modern Perspective." Trans. Jaime Martínez-Tolentino. Cuban Studies 18. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988: 125–132.
• Sommer, Doris. “El Mal de María:(Con)fusión en un romance nacional.” Trans. Jaime Martínez-Tolentino; MLN 104. 2 (March 1989): 439–474.
• Sturges, Hollister. New Art from Puerto Rico/Nuevo Arte de Puerto Rico. Trans. Jaime Martínez-Tolentino. Springfield, Massachusetts: Museum of Fine Arts, 1990.
• Román Capeles, Mervin. "Doña Ana Is Not Here..." Trans. Jaime Martínez-Tolentino. Voices of America. Colorado Springs, CO.:Western Poetry Association, 1992. 101.
• González Mandri, Flora."A House on Shifting Sands." Trans.Jaime Martínez-Tolentino and Flora González Mandri. Michigan Quarterly Review 33.3 (Summer 1994). 553–556.

Published Books With large portions devoted to Jaime's writings

• Román-Capeles, Mervin. "El cuento fantástico en Puerto Rico y Cuba." Kassel, Germany: Clark Atlanta University and Edition Reichenberger, 1995. [See pps. 72–85]
• Ayala-Richards, Haydée. "La presencia Taína en la narrativa puertorriqueña." Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2003. [See pps. 84–108]
• Bravo Rozas, Cristina. "La narrativa del miedo: Terror y horror en el cuento de puerto Rico." Madrid, Spain: Editorial Verbum, 2013. [See pps. 151; 173–174; 187–188; 192–193; 224.]

Awards

• Second Prize, Short Story Category, “Jogos Florais”, Lisbon, Portugal, 1970.
• Honors Certificate for Literary Merit and Contributions to Puerto Rican Letters, Sociedad de Autores Puerrtorriqueños, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 17, 1984.
• Finalist, Short Story Category, "Premio Literario Letras de Oro," American Express and the University of Miami, 1988.
• Certificate, “Primer Concurso Internacional Sobre la Historia de Puerto Rico” [First International Contest On Puerto Rican History], Consejo Superior de Educación de Puerto Rico [Puerto Rican Council of Higher Education], San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1989.
• 1993 Western New York Writer-In-Residence, "Just Buffalo Literary Center," Buffalo, N.Y., 1993.
• Finalist, "Family Matters" Category, 2007 Glimmer Train Magazine Literary Awards, Portland, Oregon.
• Winner, Short Story category, 2014 Wildsound Writing Festival, Toronto, Canada.
• 2016 Nominee Nobel Prize in Literature.

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