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BIO
Reina María Rodríguez
(Havana Cuba, 1952)
Reina María Rodríguez holds a degree in Hispanoamerican literature from the Universidad de La Habana. She won the national literature prize in Cuba in 2013 the Pablo Neruda Iberoamerican poetry prize in 2014. Considered one of the most important voices in contemporary Cuban poetry, Reina María’s work is characterized by its amazing depth. Risky, intense, dynamic and above all confessional, it is a reflection of her life, of difficulties and memory. Her works have been translated into languages such as Russian, Arabic, Vietnamese and German. She has authored Para un cordero blanco, a poetry collection that won the Casa de las Américas prize in 1984, En la arena de Padua, which won Plural magazine’s prize in México in 1991 and the national critics award in 1992) and La foto del invernadero (Casa de las Américas prize, 1998).
Efraín Rodríguez Santana
(Santiago de Cuba, 1953)
Efraín Rodríguez Santana is a poet, novelist, and critic, and has published, among other books of poetry, El hacha de miel, La Habana (1980); El zigzag y la flecha (Ediciones Unión, Havana, 1987), winner of the David Poetry Prize; Otro día va a comenzar (Editorial Verbum, Madrid, 2000), winner of the Gastón Baquero Award; Un país de agua (Diputación de Cádiz, 2002), winner of the Rafael Alberti Centenary Award and National Critics Award; Máquina final, Lumme Editor, São Paulo, Brazil, 2009. In 2001, he published the poetry anthology Ángel Escobar, el escogido (Editorial Betania, Madrid). After 48 years without publishing in Cuba, he gave visibility to the work of Gastón Baquero through the anthology La patria sonora de los frutos, workeing intensely with Gastón Baquero in 1995, starting with a scholarship for Hispanists, which was awarded to him by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2002 he published the novel La mujer sentada, winner of the National Critics Award. He has given lectures and poetry readings in Latin America and Europe.
Carlos Manuel Álvarez
(Matanzas, 1989)
Carlos Manuel Álvarez is a journalist and writer. In 2016 he co-founded the literary magazine El Estornudo. He has published literary opinion pieces for international media such as the New York Times, BBC, El País, The Washington Post, and Al Jazeera, and his stories have appeared in publications such as Gatopardo and El Malpensante. In 2013 he won the Calendario Award for his collection of short stories La tarde de los sucesos definitivos. In 2017 he published La tribu, retratos de Cuba, a collection of journalistic pieces related to his native country. In 2016 he was mentioned as one of the 20 most outstanding Latin American writers at the Guadalajara International Book Fair, and the following year he was included in the Bogotá39 list, which highlights the most promising writers in Latin America.
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VIDEO
Lecturas en tiempo: Reina María Rodríguez, Carlos Manuel Álvarez, and Efraín Rodríguez discuss the work of Cuban poet and writer Rafael Alcides.
