![]() Mount Holyoke College granted her an honorary degree, a Doctor of Humane Letters, in 1989. The Manhattan Borough President presented her with the third award. For her playwrighting she won the Cintas Fellowship Award for Literature in 1976, the Creative Artistic Public Service Award for Playwriting in 1976, and the Excellence in Arts Award in 1987. In the 1970s and 1980s she became the senior editor of Nuestro magazine, the managing editor of El Tiempo, Visión magazine's New York correspondent, the director of information services of the National Puerto Rican Forum, the literary manager of the International Arts Relations (INTAR), and the publications director of the Association of Hispanic Arts (AHA). She later entered the publishing industry and became a journalist. She attended Hunter College, taking night classes while working at a bakery. Prida lived in New York City for the rest of her life. In 1961, two years after the departure of their father, Prida and her mother and two siblings left Cuba. Shortly after the completion of the Cuban Revolution, her father left for the United States, fleeing in a boat. While she was a teenager, Prida wrote poetry and short stories. ![]() Prida was born on Septemin Caibarién, Cuba. ![]()
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