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Sep 01, 1932 Harlem, New York, United States 91 years old
American writer
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About Cecile Pineda
- Cecile Pineda (born September 1932, in Harlem, New York City), is an American author.
- 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 is 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The theater produced thirteen original works, seven of which were based on Pineda's original texts.
- 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.She completed her theater studies in 1970, taking an advanced M.A.
- degree in theater from San Francisco State University.
- 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 feet (9 m).
- 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, Kobo Abe, J.M.
- Coetzee, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Franz Kafka as writers whose work has most influenced her.
