Manuel Núñez Asencio
Manuel Núñez Asencio (born 1957) is a Dominican Republic linguist, researcher, academic and essayist. As an essayist, he has stood out the most and achieved wide recognition, especially when he ventures from theory, exhaustive analysis and the deconstruction of ideological discourses in the fragmentariness of time, in the changing interstices of historical reality. Today, Núñez is recognized as one of the most influential contemporary writers of the Dominican Republic.