NEW YORK – Dolores Prida, a writer who chronicled Hispanic life on stages, on opinion pages and in advice columns until her death last week, is being remembered as a voice that illuminated a community to both outsiders and Hispanics themselves.
Dolores Prida, Columnist and Playwright
A memorial for Prida was scheduled for Saturday at Hunter College in New York City, after a funeral Friday. Prida, 69, died Sunday after complaining of feeling ill on the way home from an anniversary party for a Hispanic women’s professional group, said Hortensia Amaro, a friend.
Perhaps best known for her longtime “Dolores Dice” — “Dolores Says” — advice column in Latina magazine, the Cuban-born Prida also was a columnist for the Daily News of New York and for El Diario/La Prensa, a Spanish-language daily in the city. She also wrote a string of plays and musicals.
Her work blended wit and commentary on Hispanics’ experience in the United States, whether her writing took the form of a play about generational conflicts among Hispanic women or an answer to a reader worried about buying a home because her husband was living in the country illegally.
