Víctor Rodríguez Núñez (Havana, Cuba, 1955) is a poet, journalist, literary critic, translator, and scholar. Collections of his poems appear throughout Latin America and Europe, and he has been the recipient of major awards all over the world. He has read his poetry at leading international literary festivals in more than twenty countries. In the last several years, Rodríguez Núñez has begun to develop an enthusiastic audience in the English-speaking world as translations of his work have appeared in prominent American and British journals. A wide selection of his poems has also been translated into Arabic, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovenian, and Russian. His poetry has received numerous accolades, including the David Prize (Cuba, 1980), the Plural Prize (Mexico, 1983), the EDUCA Prize (Costa Rica, 1995), the Renacimiento Prize (Spain, 2000), the Fray Luis de León Prize (Spain 2005), the Leonor Prize (Spain 2006), the Rincón de la Victoria Prize (Spain 2010) and the Jaime Gil de Biedma Prize (Spain 2011). In the eighties, he was the editor of El Caimán Barbudo, one of Cuba's leading cultural magazines. He has compiled three anthologies that define his poetic generation, and published various critical editions, introductions, and essays on Spanish American poets. Among his translations are books by John Kinsella, Margaret Randall, and Mark Strand. He divides his time between Gambier, Ohio, where he is currently Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College, and Havana, Cuba.
