Víctor Rodríguez Núñez
Víctor Rodríguez Núñez, born in 1955 in Havana, is a Cuban poet, journalist, literary critic, and translator. He earned a BA from the University of Havana, an MA from the University of Oregon, and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. He has lived in Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, and the United States, where he is a professor of Spanish at Kenyon College.
He has published more than twenty books of poetry. In the 1980s, he wrote for and edited El Caimán Barbudo, one of Cuba’s leading cultural magazines. A collection of his interviews with Hispanic poets appears in La poesía sirve para todo (2008). He is the assistant director of the Mexican cultural journal La Otra.
Rodríguez Núñez has compiled three anthologies that helped define his poetic generation, and in 2011 he edited Poesía cubana: Antología esencial for Visor (Madrid). His book-length study Cien años de solidaridad on Gabriel García Márquez’s non-fiction won the Enrique José Varona Prize in 1986. He has published critical editions, introductions, and essays on Spanish American poets, and he also translates from Spanish into English.
He is an Associate Editor for Salt Publishing’s Earthworks Series of Latin American Poetry in Translation. His poetry has been translated into Arabic, Dutch, German, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Portuguese, Russian, and Slovenian.
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