Orlando Alcántara F. (Cristorly)
Theologian, Writer, Inventor, Journalist, Researcher, Critic, and Translator. Website: http://jesus.50webs.com. E-Mail: cristorly@yahoo.com. Postal Address: Avenida Constitución No. 102, San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic. Phone: 1-809-528-0168. Premium Writer at http://academia-research.com
Writer without distinction of any literary genre, inventor of the Virtual Modular Game “omni JESUS”, and “Biblical Ekklesial Unitarian Universalist” Christian believer. Born on August 1st, 1962, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. In Meta-Poetry he has found an ideal medium of expression according to the visionary insights of Jorge Piña and other writers since 1991. Has been awarded many literary prizes at Instituto Politécnico Loyola (IPL) (Loyola Polytechnic Institute) (Third Prize, Honor Mention, and Second Prize in Short-Story in 1980, 1981 and 1982, respectively), Casa de Teatro (House of Theater) (Honor Mentions in 1982 and 1997), Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) (Santo Domingo Autonomous University) (Honor Mention in Short-Story in 1990), Sociedad Cultural Alianza Cibaeña (Cibao Alliance Cultural Society) (First Prize and Third Prize in Short-Story in 1990 and 1992, respectively), El Periódico (The Newspaper) (of the late poet, journalist, and ecologist Daniel Martich L. –RIP-), El Informador del Sur (newspaper The Southern Informant, edited by the journalist Ruddy Medrano), Cámara de Comercio y Producción de San Cristóbal (San Cristóbal Chamber of Commerce and Production) (Award to the Business Excellency and the Talent of San Cristóbal 1998; Eng. Osiris Guzmán, President; Dr. Jesús Fernández Vélez, member of the Jury, among others), Dirección General de Promoción a la Juventud (General Direction for Promotion of Youth) (Recognition in 2000; Roxanna Roa P., Provincial Director), and Programa de TV “Equilibrio” (TV Program “Equilibrium”) (Recognition in 2003 by the extinct journalist Johnny Martínez (RIP), and the cultural promoter and journalist Julio César Pereyra). In this year Alcántara F. wrote the Chess book “Move by Move Method” about the análisis, synthesis and critique of the thinking method of Chess thinking. His metapoem Livia “AMOR” (Livia “LOVE”) reached the finals at II Premio de Poesía Angel Miguel Pozanco (Angel Miguel Pozanco Poetry Award II) (Spain) in 2005. Alcántara F. was mainly the best student of his class in Escuela Nuestra Señora de Fátima (Our Lady of Fátima School) (Ensanche Espaillat, Santo Domingo); Escuela Eugenio María de Hostos (Eugenio María de Hostos School) (Maimón, Bonao); Colegio Fernando Arturo de Meriño (Fernando Arturo de Meriño Private School) (Maimón, Bonao); and Instituto Politécnico Loyola (IPL) (Loyola Politechnic Institute) (San Cristóbal; Mejor Estudiante del 1978-1979; Mejor Estudiante del 1979-1980 –compartido-) (San Cristóbal; Best Student in 1978-1979; Best Student in 1979-1980 (tied); and his last academic index was an average of 95.4 at UASD, the first university of the Americas. He was an ESL teacher at Instituto Cultural Domínico-Americano (Dominican-American Cultural Institute) from January, 1991, to March, 1992, and at The English Center from January to October, 1994, in Santo Domingo. His first English teacher was the agriculture technician Hilario García M. in Maimón, Bonao. Has written numerous opinion articles for national newspapers in the Dominican Republic and San Cristóbal dealing with a wide spectrum of journalistic publications. Has been included at the Internet Free Encyclopedia “Wikipedia” as a Dominican theologian and poet in 2005 due to his contributions to the thought of the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza regarding the meaning of the word “Pandeism”. As part of his contribution to Wikipedia, Alcántara F. wrote the theological essay entitled “Omnientheism: GOD According to Biblical Universalist Unitarianism.” Lately he is experiencing the insightful roots of Omni-Poetry as a valid artistic movement that leads to an avant-garde relationship between the writer and reader as proactive agents in an innovative holistic Poetics. A paradigmatic example of the new approach can be found in his short-story “The Ineffable Death”. Un ejemplo paradigmático del nuevo acercamiento poético puede apreciarse en su cuento “La Muerte Inefable” (Honor Mention at Casa de Teatro (House of Theater) en 1997). For some literary critics, as it is the case of the San Cristóbal intellectual Teddy Brito, his best short-stories are “Círculos Concéntricos” (“Concentric Circles”), First Prize at Sociedad Cultural Alianza Cibaeña (Cibao Alliance Cultural Society) in November, 1990, and “La Muerte Inefable” (“The Ineffable Death”), Honor Mention at Concurso de Cuentos de Casa de Teatro (Casa de Teatro Short-Story Contest) in July, 1997. Alcántara F. published the critical-anthological book “Meta-Poetry of Mine!” in 2003, and organized the meta-pictorial exhibits “Ludicrous Image” and “Twelve Jorge Piña’s Meta-Poems” in Casa de Teatro (House of Theater) and Fundación Casa de Arte Marcial Báez (Marcial Báez Art House Foundation) in San Cristóbal in 2003 and 2004, respectively. On December 2nd, 2005, Alcántara F. was chosen as one of the top 12 writers among more than 500 writers at the Ukranian academic research company “Academia Research”. Due to administrative issues, Alcántara F. left “Academia Research” on January, 2007. One of his most relevant research studies in this company is about the application of contemporary management theories and tools in developing and sustaining the competitive position of a global consulting firm, taking IBM BCS (Business Consulting Services) as a reference. Currently, Orlando Alcántara F. (Cristorly) is developing his own website as a Christian gateway in which everybody can interact through his Virtual Modular Game “omni JESUS”, and his fictional and theological writings about Universal Salvation in Christ Jesus, as well as a medium to market his talent as a biblical acrostic writer. In October, 2006, one of his poems (The Poetic Our Father) and his biography were included in Yahoo! Answers (Yahoo! Respuestas) by the user EIDAN from Spain. Orlando Alcántara F. (Cristorly) has also made 6 contributions to Yahoo! Time Capsule in English and Spanish in 2006. Orlando Alcántara F. (Cristorly) is a journalist for the monthly newspaper El Guardián, from San Cristóbal, directed by Víctor Martínez, B.S., since April, 2007. In May, 2007, was awarded in the I Premios Al Comunicador (I Prizes To The Communicator) of the Fundación Hermanos Tejeda (Foundation Brothers Tejeda) the prize to Meritorious Writer together with Sócrates Barinas Coiscou and Diógenes Valdez. (Philippians 3:8-4:20). Amen.