Novel. Manuel Martínez Maldonado is a Puerto Rican poet, essayist, fiction writer and film critic His first novel Isla Verde o el Chevy azul was published in 1999. Other publications include the novels El vuelo del dragón (2012), Del color de la muerte (2014), El descubrimiento (2019) and the collection of poetry Sostenida (1984), Palm Beach Blues (1985), Por Amor al Arte (1989), Hotel María (1999), Novela de Mediodía (2003), El imperialista ausente (2014, Premio de Novela del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña 2013) and Breve es el amor (2019).