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Cecile Pineda was born on 19 September, 0032 in Harlem, New York, U.S., is an American dramatist and author (1932-2022). Discover Cecile Pineda's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

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Occupation Author theatre director playwright
Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 19 September 0032
Birthday 19 September
Birthplace Harlem, New York, U.S.
Date of death 11 August, 2022
Died Place Berkeley, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Cecile Pineda (September 1932 – August 11, 2022) was an American author.

1959

The Cecile Pineda Papers, 1959–to the present, include a collection of the author's original correspondence, manuscripts, journals, reviews, videos, drafts, rehearsal logs, and posters documenting her career in both literature and theater.

The collection is housed at Stanford University, occupying more than 29 ft. Her academic appointments include positions as writer in residence at San Diego State University and Mills College in Oakland, California, and a Distinguished Regents' Lectureship at the University of California, Berkeley.

An avid reader from childhood, Pineda cites Samuel Beckett, Kōbō Abe, J. M. Coetzee, Gabriel García Márquez, and Franz Kafka as writers whose work has most influenced her.

1961

In 1961, she moved from New York City to San Francisco, California, where she has spent most of her career as a writer and theater maker.

1969

In 1969, Pineda founded The Theater of Man which she directed from 1969 to 1981.

Performance pieces were developed in an intense rehearsal process in which actors worked with composers, designers, choreographers, playwrights, and sculptors under her direction.

Productions included her redaction of T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, Claude van Itallie's The Serpent, After Eurydice, Stoneground, based on Mujica-Lainz' Bomarzo, The Trial, after Franz Kafka, and Threesomes.

1970

She completed her theater studies in 1970, taking an advanced M.A. degree in theater from San Francisco State University.

1985

"When I read Face in 1985, it struck me as an extraordinary achievement, all the more extraordinary for being a first novel. Rereading it has not changed my estimate....Face continues to haunt me."

1986

Her novels have won numerous awards including the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California in 1986 for Face, and a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship.

Pineda was a daughter of a Mexican professor of languages and a French-Swiss artist and teacher.

In her autobiographical essay "Deracinated: the writer re-invents her sources" published in Máscaras, she states that her father, along with his father and brothers, fled the Mexican Revolution leaving his mother and sister behind.

1987

Frieze was published soon after in 1987.

Set in 9th Century India and Java, it questions the role of the individual artist in a society, which is at once exploitative and oppressive.

The Love Queen of the Amazon

1992

Published in 1992, with the assistance of a National Endowment of the Arts Writing Fellowship, Pineda's comic novel, The Love Queen of the Amazon, was named Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times.

Its protagonist, Ana Magdelena Figeruoa is awarded in a brokered marriage to a celebrated Latin American man of letters who charges her with providing him with three meals a day and a clean change of underwear while he repairs to his aerie to compose the Great Latin American novel of the Boom Years.

The novel is a send-up of hemispheric politics and magic realism.

"Ana Magdalena Figueroa is one of the few great Latin heroines not created by the male imagination. Cecile Pineda has enhanced the roster of modern literature's most remarkable female characters with her brilliantly drawn portrait."

—Richard Martins, Chicago Tribune, March 8, 1992.

Fishlight: A Dream of Childhood

Fishlight: A Dream of Childhood is Pineda's fictional memoir told in the voice of a five-year-old.

2001

Published by Wings Press in 2001, it explores the imaginative formation of the future writer.

Bardo99

2002

In 2002, Pineda published the first of her mononovels.

Cast as the protagonist's dying hallucination, Bardo 99 is the author's encounter with some of the waning century's most apocalyptic events.

Redoubt

2003

—J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize, 2003.

Frieze

2004

"I do not think anymore that writing—mine or another’s—can change the world," Pineda told The Bloomsbury Review in an interview in 2004.

"Perhaps in their small way, writers can answer for those who are voiceless in their extreme deprivation and suffering. But at best, in the very smallest scheme, writing can provide a moment of grace, both for her who writes and him who reads, in a very dark world."

Summaries

Face

Cecile Pineda's debut novel, Face, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction awarded by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, proposes a protagonist who suffers a catastrophic facial accident.

It addresses issues having to do with identity.

Pineda followed the publication of Bardo 99 with a second mononovel in 2004.

Redoubt follows the stream of consciousness of a sentry standing guard in a desert outpost located somewhere close to or distant from an unnamed capital.

It is Pineda's meditation on the state of being born female.

"Redoubt is as close as I've ever come to "being one" with a woman, through the pages of a book."