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Olga Nolla

May 30, 2019

Nolla was born in Puerto Rico in 1938. She began her literary career with Zona de carga y descarga, an influential literary journal which she edited alongside her cousin Rosario Ferré. She published three poetry collections which received great critical acclaim; her numerous short stories appeared in Puerto Rican journals and newspapers, and in the collection Porque nos queremos tanto (1990). In the decade of the 1990s she flourished as a novelist, publishing three: La segunda hija (1992), El castillo de la memoria (1996) and El manuscrito de Miramar (1998). Her work stands out for its meticulous skill and her sensitive and evocative exploration of the Puerto Rican high class, a seemingly idyllic and perfect world, whose other face is exposed in a violent and dramatic way. Olga Nolla died suddenly in 2001.