Heather Hennes

Heather Hennes, professor of Spanish at Saint Joseph’s University, is the translator of The Letters of Minerva Mirabal and Manolo Tavárez: Love and Resistance in the Time of Trujillo.

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The Letters of Minerva Mirabal and Manolo Tavárez

Love and Resistance in the Time of Trujillo

By Minou Tavárez Mirabal; Translated by Heather Hennes; Introduction by Heather Hennes
University of Florida Press
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Alive in Their Garden

The True Story of the Mirabal Sisters and Their Fight for Freedom

By Dedé Mirabal; Edited and translated by Ana E. Martínez and Heather Hennes; Introduction by Julia Alvarez
University of Florida Press

In this memoir, Dedé Mirabal offers an intimate account of the lives and legacy of her sisters Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal, Dominican revolutionaries who were assassinated in 1960 by order of dictator Rafael Trujillo. This is the first English translation of Dedé’s story, introducing new readers to a tragedy and international outcry that heralded the fall of the Trujillo dictatorship.

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The Letters of Minerva Mirabal and Manolo Tavárez

Love and Resistance in the Time of Trujillo

By Minou Tavárez Mirabal; Translated by Heather Hennes; Introduction by Heather Hennes
University of Florida Press
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