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Nancy Alonso

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Nancy Alonso

Nancy Alonso was born in Havana and graduated from the University of Havana with a degree in biology in 1972. She was a professor and researcher at the Havana Institute of Medical Science for more than twenty years and served in Ethiopia as a physiology professor at Jimma's Institute of Health Sciences from 1989 to 1991....

She has published two books of short stories: Tirar la primera piedra [Casting the First Stone], which won Honorable Mention in the 1995 David Competition of the Cuban National Union of Writers and Artists (UNEAC), and Cerrado por reparación [Closed for Repairs], winner of the "Alba de Céspedes" prize for women's narrative in 2002. Her stories have appeared in the anthologies Estatuas de sal [Pillars of Salt], Rumba senza palme né caresse, Cubana, Habaneras, Making a Scene, Open your Eyes and Soar, and Mi sagrada familia [My Sacred Family], among others. She is a member of UNEAC and is currently preparing two books of short stories.

To Offer My Heart

By Nancy Alonso

The Monteroni family could tell exactly how Marcelo felt by the music he selected.

Translated from Spanish by Anne Fountain

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Nancy Alonso

Nancy Alonso

Articles by Nancy Alonso

To Offer My Heart