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Julia Alvarez - Coggle Diagram
Julia Alvarez
Wrote the novel, "In the Time of the Butterflies"
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Alvarez wrote In the Time of the Butterflies as a fictional story in order to spread awareness of the Mirabal sisters' journey.
In 2013, she received the National Medal of Arts from President Obama.
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The Alvarez family settled in Queens, N.Y.
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“I consider this radical uprooting from my culture, my native language, my country, the reason I began writing,” Alvarez has said.
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