Magali García Ramis
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Magali García Ramis (1946- )escritora puertorriqueña.
Biografía
Magali García Ramis was born in 1946 in Santurce, Puerto Rico. She lived all her childhood in Santurce, a borough of San Juan, with her mother,father and brothers, near her her mother’s family , with close relations with uncles, cousins and her maternal grandmother. Her father worked as a civil servant in Fort Buchanan; her mother worked for a while in her sister's laboratory and later stayed home with her children. Her eldest aunt, María Luisa Ramis, was the first woman in Puerto Rico to open a laboratory and all the aunts worked there. Magali spent many hours of her childhood in her grandmother's house and in the laboratory.
When Magali was a teenager, her family moved to the upscale Miramar section and she and her elder brother had to change schools. That school emphasized American culture and history, and Magali and many classmates, comparing the U.S. and Puerto Rico interpreted all things American as being better than those of the island. Magali always struggled with this ideas and in college she learned more about Puerto Rican culture. This themes can be found in her literary work.
Education and literary contributions
In 1964 she enrolled at the University of Puerto Rico where she majored in History. After graduating, she worked for the newspaper El Mundo. In 1968 she received a scholarship and moved to New York to study journalism in Columbia University. It is in New York that she writes her first story, "Todos los domingos" ("Every Sunday"). With this story she won first prize in the literary contest of the Ateneo Puertorriqueño. (Puerto Rican Athenaeum). She returns to Puerto Rico in 1971 and starts to work for the newspaper El Imparcial. She worked for the newspaper until 1972. She also worked for a literary magazine called Avance until 1973. During this period she continues to write short stories.
She sends a book composed of 4 short stories to a contest called Casa de las Américas (House of the Americas) in Cuba. She received an honorary mention for one of the stories “La viuda de Chencho el Loco” (‘’”The widow of Chencho, the crazy) which was published in 1974. That same year she moves to Mexico. She returns to Puerto Rico in 1977 and published another book of short stories called "La familia de todos nosostros". She also starts to work for the School of Communications of Puerto Rico. She routinely collaborated in several Puerto Rican newspapers. She finishes her famous semi-autographical[1] novel "Felices Días Tío Sergio" ("Happy Days, Uncle Sergio") in 1985 and is published in 1986. In 1988, she receives a "Beca Guggenheim" for her second novel, "Las horas del Sur" ("The hours of the South"). In 1993, Magali publishes "La Ciudad que me Habita" ("The city that inhabits me"), a collection of journalistic essays that she wrote while she worked for El Mundo, El Imparcial, Avance, Claridad y La Hora.
Temas y su influiencias
Magali’s stories are depictions of Puerto Rican culture, family and politics. She writes about interactions within a family, Puerto Rican identity and women's identity.[2]
Trabajos Literarios
- La familia de todos nosotros (cuento corto)
- La Ciudad que me habita (journalistic essays)
- Las noches de Riel de Oro (cuento corto)
- Felices Días, Tío Sergio (novel)
- Las Horas del Sur (novel)
