Juan Ramon Quinones, creator of the
Infinite Poetry and master of an esoteric style in painting, was
born the 4th of July of 1939.
Since his early years, he dedicated his life to painting and
literature. In his
professional trajectory he’s been awarded with international
prizes and recognition.
Quinones received in Chile, along with the
Venezuelan intellectual Arturo Uslar Pietri, the maximum reward from
the Interamerican Press Society, the SIP-Mergenthaler (1972)
equivalent to the Pulitzer for the Latin Americans.
The pictorial work of the Dominican artist,
journalist, writer and poet, has been destined to a selected group
of collectors from Santo Domingo, Paris, Madrid, Miami and New York.
Currently his work is permanently exposed in his personal
gallery, private, in his residence, open only to the family, friends
and related. Occasionally
he does expositions with invitations.
Besides the SIP-Mergenthaler, Juan Ramon
Quinones is the winner of the First Journalism Award of the
Pellerano Alfau Foundation (1973), given by the Listin Diario
newspaper, from the Dominican Republic, and the First Award Guido
Gil from the University Cultural Center given by the Independent
University of Santo
Domingo (1973). He was
a professor at the Central University of the East (UCE) and at the
Eugenio Maria de Hostos University, both from the Dominican Republic.
He is the founder and editor of
LETRA GRANDE (BIG LETTER) magazine, art and literature, and
CARTA DOMINICANA (DOMINICAN LETTER), an economics magazine.
The BIG LETTER volumes, in book format, have reached far away
places in several continents.
In the field of his Infinite Poetry, Juan
Ramon Quinones has various works, mostly inedited.
For his lifetime achievement in literary work, he received
the medal of honor from the International Center for Poetical
Studies in Quito, Ecuador, and was assigned as a honorable member.
Among his literary works he published In Aconde’s Cranium
and Dry Stick.
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