‘Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined’ Documentary Set to Air on PBS in September (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez will be the focus of a new documentary for PBS from “American Masters” and Latino Public Broadcasting.
Timed to Hispanic Heritage Month, “Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined” will premiere on Tuesday, Sept, 17 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS.
The program will be presented by “American Masters” and the LPB series “Voces.” A Dominican-American poet and novelist, Alvarez made literary waves beginning in the early 1990s with her semi-autobiographical novel “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” (published in 1991), followed by 1994’s “In the Time of the Butterflies,” about life under Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo.
Now 74, Alvarez most recently published the novel “The Cemetery of Untold Stories.” Alvarez has been behind three nonfiction books, three poetry collections, 11 children/young adult books and seven literary novels. “Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined” includes eatures extensive interviews with Alvarez, her family and her literary contemporaries.
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