Partner Bill Sullivan
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Mount Holyoke College (Seven Sisters), 50 College St, South Hadley, MA 01075
Columbia University (Ivy League), 116th St and Broadway, New York, NY 10027
University of South Florida, 4202 E Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL 33620, Stati Uniti
Jaime Manrique (born 16 June 1949) is a bilingual Colombian American
novelist, poet, essayist, educator, and translator. As an adolescent in
Colombia in the early 1960s, Jaime Manrique was shaken by a screening of Ken
Hughes’ 1960 film about the Wilde scandal. He recalled that there was only one
man known to be gay in Barranquilla, a certain ‘Tarzan’. ‘He was an outcast
and an object of ridicule … I put together the two images of homosexuality I
knew – Oscar Wilde and Tarzan – and I thought this meant I was doomed to a
life of ostracism.’
Manrique was born in Barranquilla, Colombia. He lived his childhood between
the city of his birth and Bogotá. In 1966, he emigrated with his mother to
Lakeland, Florida. He received a B.A. in English literature at the University
of South Florida in 1972.
In 1974, Manrique met Pauline Kael, The New Yorker's film critic, with whom he began a
friendship that lasted until her death in 2001. His book Notas de Cine:
Confesiones de un Crítico Amateur (1979), is dedicated to Kael.
In 1977, Manrique received permission from the Argentine novelist
Manuel Puig to join a
workshop that Puig taught at Columbia University. Manrique was working on
El cadáver de papá
(1980). Puig encouraged him to continue writing fiction when he said that he
liked his writing because "it came from under the epidermis." They
became friends after that. Manrique described their friendship in The
Writer As Diva, an essay included in Eminent Maricones.[1]
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Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay
and Lesbian Writers by Robert Giard [Rights Notice: Copyright Jonathan G. Silin (jsilin@optonline.net)]
Also in 1977, Manrique met the American painter
Bill Sullivan. The couple lived between Colombia and Venezuela until the
end of 1979. Until Sullivan's death in 2010, they remained partners.
Jaime Manrique began his career as university professor in the USA in 1987
at the Eugene Lang College of The New School for Social Research (The New
School). His career as educator continues to this day.
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