Cartagena Portalatín, Aída (Nombre personal)

Narradores dominicanos, 1969 (a.e.) t.p. (Aída Cartagena); back cover (b. 1918)

Her En la casa del tiempo, 1984: t.p. (Aída Cartagena Portalatín)

LC data base, 8-28-86 (hdg.: Cartagena Portalatín, Aída; usage: Aída Cartagena Portalatín)

Dicc. de aut. ibero., 1982: p. 100 (Cartagena Portalatín, Aída, 1918-)

Praises and offenses, 2009: t.p. (Aída Cartagena Portalatín) data view (1918-1994)

Tablero, 1978: p. 4 of cover (b. in Moca, República Dominicana)

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed August 6, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Cartagena Portalatín, Aída; poet, fiction writer, essayist, educator; born 1918 in Moca, Dominican Republic; in the 1940s she was part of a literary group called La Poesía Sorprendida (Surprised Poetry); earned a degree from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) and a diploma from the School of Plastic Arts in Paris; later returned to the Dominican Republic and taught art history; in the late 1950s and the 1960s, founded the literary series La isla necesaria; in sum, her published works span forty years and include nine collections of poetry, two book-length essays, two novels, and a collection of short stories; some of her poems were translated into English for a 1988 bilingual anthology entitled Del desconsuelo al compromiso, or From Desolation to Compromise, edited by Daisy Cocco de Filippis and published by Taller in Santo Domingo; died 1994 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)