Discipline: Literature – fiction

Jaime Manrique

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1985, 1992, 2002
More: poets.org/poet/jaime-manrique
Jaime Manrique is a bilingual Colombian American novelist, poet, essayist, educator, and translator. His first poetry volume Los Adoradores de la Luna, won Colombia's National Poetry Award in 1975. His first novel published in English was Colombian Gold in 1983. In 1992 he published Latin Moon in Manhattan. In 1999 he published Maricones Eminentes (Arenas, Lorca, Puig and Me) for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has taught at many universities including Columbia and Rutgers University. Manrique novels, poems, and essays have been translated into English, Spanish, Hebrew, Polish, Turkish, Japanese, Chinese, German, Russian, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, and other languages.

Studios

Monday Music

Jaime Manrique worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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