Víctor Rodríguez Núñez (Havana, 1955)
is one of Cuba’s most outstanding and celebrated contemporary writers, with
over fifty collections of his poetry published throughout the world. He has
been the recipient of major awards in the Spanish-speaking region, including,
in 2015, the coveted Loewe Prize. His selected poems have been translated into
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Macedonian, Serbian,
Swedish, and Vietnamese. He has been a riveting presence at the most important
international literary festivals, having read in more than forty countries. In
the last decade, his work has developed an enthusiastic readership in the US
and the UK, where he has published seven book-length translations. He
divides his time between Gambier, Ohio, where he is currently Professor of
Spanish at Kenyon College, and Havana, Cuba.