Julia Alvarez

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Dominican-American writer essayist novelist person poet

Julia Alvarez is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist best known for works like "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" and "In the Time of the Butterflies," which explore themes of identity, exile, and cultural heritage.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Dominican-American writer → essayist → novelist → person → poet →
awardReceived	Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature → Pura Belpré Award →
basedOn	Dominican diaspora experience →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1950-03-27 →
educatedAt	Middlebury College → Syracuse University →
employer	Middlebury College →
ethnicOrigin	Dominican →
familyName	Alvarez →
genre	children's literature → essay → fiction → poetry → young adult literature →
givenName	Julia →
hasInfluenced	Latina writers in the United States →
languagesSpokenOrWritten	English → Spanish →
movement	Latina literature → feminist literature → postcolonial literature →
name	Julia Alvarez →
nationality	American →
notableWork	A Wedding in Haiti → Afterlife → Before We Were Free → How the García Girls Lost Their Accents → In the Name of Salomé → In the Time of the Butterflies → Once Upon a Quinceañera → Return to Sender → The Woman I Kept to Myself → Yo! → ¡Yo! (novel) →
occupation	university teacher → writer →
placeOfBirth	New York City →
positionHeld	writer-in-residence at Middlebury College →
residence	Vermont →
writingTheme	cultural heritage → dictatorship in the Dominican Republic → exile → identity → immigration →

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Phillips Academy Andover →	hasNotableAlumni
Julia Alvarez →	name