Background
Teresa Dovalpage was born Teresa de la Caridad Doval Giménez in Havana, Cuba, in 1966. Growing up as an only child, she considered herself "a bookworm and a spiritual seeker - in sum, a quirky girl."
Havana, Cuba
In 1990 Teresa Doval graduated from the School of Foreign Languages of the University of Havana with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature.
Albuquerque, NM 87131, United States
Teresa Doval was a doctoral student at the University of New Mexico and received a Ph. D. in Latin American literature.
Teresa Doval signs one of her books.
(Sixteen-year-old Lourdes is a dedicated and proud revolut...)
Sixteen-year-old Lourdes is a dedicated and proud revolutionary who spends the summer of 1982, along with her peers, at the “School-in-the-Fields,” tilling tobacco fields to prove her dedication to Fidel and the revolution. But she is also a study of contradictions. Like other girls her age, she longs to wear smuggled Jordache jeans and drink Cuban coffee, to watch American cartoons and eat steak whenever she wants. All simple pleasures, all denied her by the same revolution she serves. What she has are the harsh realities of life in a glorified work camp, which leads her to question her allegiances.
https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Guevara-Teresa-Caridad-Doval-ebook/dp/B001P81T6U/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(Teresa Dovalpage's novel concerns four women in a Cuban f...)
Teresa Dovalpage's novel concerns four women in a Cuban family who on a night in the year 2000, during one of Havana's enforced blackouts, reflect on their lives and uncover a century of history.
https://www.amazon.com/Posesas-Habana-Spanish-Teresa-Dovalpage/dp/B006G8AQYK
2004
(Habanera is a wonderfully lively and entertaining journey...)
Habanera is a wonderfully lively and entertaining journey, alternately humorous and wistful. By the end, you will feel as if you have traveled to one of the most exotic islands on earth, during its most surrealistic historical moment.
https://www.amazon.com/Habanera-Portrait-Family-Teresa-Dovalpage/dp/1888205377/?tag=2022091-20
2010
(Orfeo Vázquez, a well-planted mulatto, plays a large cong...)
Orfeo Vázquez, a well-planted mulatto, plays a large conga drum in a salsa band but dreams of devoting himself to classical music. He is in love with Eury, a full-figured woman and a devotee of Charlotte Brontë. Things become complicated when Eury’s sister, a sensually aggressive redhead, insists on taking the musician to bed. These three sides of the triangle plan on leaving Cuba in a clandestine boat, facing the fury of an approaching hurricane. But Amphitrite has other plans for them.
https://www.amazon.com/Orfeo-en-el-Caribe-Spanish/dp/8415918216/?tag=2022091-20
2013
(Loud-mouthed, funny and insightful, Dovalpage takes the r...)
Loud-mouthed, funny and insightful, Dovalpage takes the reader for a trip from the streets of Havana to a New Mexican town. Some stories flirt with magic realism; others explore love affairs gone wrong. A Cuban teenager suddenly goes from using ration cards to discovering credit cards. An American professor falls for a young santera. A New Age group attempts to achieve self-realization amid scarcities and blackouts.
https://www.amazon.com/Astral-Plane-Stories-Southwest-Beyond-ebook/dp/B00MBPCGIG/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(Don’t let the authentic Cuban recipes fool you: This is n...)
Don’t let the authentic Cuban recipes fool you: This is no cozy mystery. Set in Havana during the Black Spring of 2003, a charming but poison-laced culinary mystery reveals the darker side of the modern Revolution.
https://www.amazon.com/Death-through-Kitchen-Teresa-Dovalpage-ebook/dp/B0738J3SXK/?tag=2022091-20
2018
Teresa Dovalpage was born Teresa de la Caridad Doval Giménez in Havana, Cuba, in 1966. Growing up as an only child, she considered herself "a bookworm and a spiritual seeker - in sum, a quirky girl."
In 1990 Teresa Dovalpage graduated from the School of Foreign Languages of the University of Havana with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. She also was a doctoral student at the University of New Mexico and received a Ph. D. in Latin American literature.
Teresa de la Caridad Doval, who publishes using the combination of her maiden and married names, Dovalpage, is the author of the novel A Girl like Che Guevara. Born in Havana, Cuba, and a graduate of the University of Havana, she taught in Cuba and met her husband while translating for him at a Silent Quaker meeting in Havana. They married, and two years later they traveled to San Diego, California, where Doval taught English in community colleges and at the University of California, San Diego Extension.
In San Diego, Doval was frequently asked about life in Cuba, and she began to write down her experiences. She adapted these to her debut young adult novel, which is set in 1982. During this era Communist revolutionary - Che Guevara is a hero to all, including the protagonist. Lourdes Torres is a sixteen-year-old girl who must leave her comfortable urban home to serve for four months in a government work camp in the tobacco fields of the western province of Pinar del Rio. She is of mixed race, and her maternal grandmother practices the rites of Santeria to protect the girl, while her mother sticks pins in a doll clothed in scrap from her mother-in-law's dress. Lourdes, who calls herself a skinny mulatto, feels that no one will ever be attracted to her, but the work camp provides the opportunity for experimentation, first with boys, then with the voluptuous Aurora, with whom Lourdes shares a bed. Aurora becomes pregnant, and Lourdes, who is herself in a relationship with a boy, continues to have a crush on her. But she knows her hero, Guevara, would not have approved since homosexuality was not tolerated by the Cuban government. Several reviewers noted a certain stiffness to the prose as well as the slow pace exhibited by the first-time author.
In 2002, Doval and her husband moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she enrolled in the doctoral program in the Spanish and Portuguese department. During her first year there, she wrote her Spanish-language novel, The Possessed Women of La Habana, which was published by Pureplay Press, a Los Angeles publisher dedicated to preserving the culture and history of Cuba.
(Sixteen-year-old Lourdes is a dedicated and proud revolut...)
2004(Teresa Dovalpage's novel concerns four women in a Cuban f...)
2004(Orfeo Vázquez, a well-planted mulatto, plays a large cong...)
2013(Loud-mouthed, funny and insightful, Dovalpage takes the r...)
2014(Habanera is a wonderfully lively and entertaining journey...)
2010(Don’t let the authentic Cuban recipes fool you: This is n...)
2018From 1990 to 1996 Teresa Doval attended a Silent Quaker meeting - the only one of its kind in Havana, and a variety of spiritual groups, from Yoga to the Violet Flame Circle. The latter disappeared when two of its members committed suicide in the Escambray mountains, looking for the Shamballa. Teresa wrote a fiction book about some of her uncanny experiences during those years.
In 1994 Doval met Hugh Page. They married the same year and moved to the United States in 1996.