Víctor Rodríguez Núñez


Víctor Rodríguez Núñez is a Cuban poet, journalist, literary critic and translator.
In addition to Cuba, he has lived in Nicaragua, Colombia, and the United States, where he is currently a Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College.

Poetry

Rodríguez Núñez has published over twenty books of poetry, including:
  • Cayama
  • Con raro olor a mundo
  • Noticiario del solo
  • Cuarto de desahogo
  • Los poemas de nadie y otros poemas
  • El último a la feria
  • Oración inconclusa
  • Con raro olor a mundo: Primera antología
  • Actas de medianoche I
  • Actas de medianoche II
  • Todo buen corazón es un prismático: Antología poética, 1975-2005. Intro.Juan Gelman.
  • Intervenciones: Antología poética. Ed. and Intro. Juan Carlos Abril.
  • tareas
  • reversos
  • reversos thaw/deshielos. Trans. Katherine Hedeen. Todmorden: Arc Publications, 2013.desde un granero rojo. Madrid: Hiperión, 2013.Cuarto de desahogo: Antología personal, 1975-2010. Havana: Letras Cubanas, 2013.deshielos. Granada: Valparaíso Ediciones, 2014.desde un granero rojo: poesía reciente. Quito: ElÁngelEditor, 2014.

Poetry awards

Rodríguez Núñez has won numerous prizes for his poetry:
  • David Prize
  • Plural Prize
  • EDUCA Prize
  • Renacimiento Prize
  • Fray Luis de León Prize, Accésit
  • Leonor Prize
  • Rincón de la Victoria Prize
  • Jaime Gil de Biedma Prize, Accésit
  • Alfons el Magnànim Poetry Prize

Poetry in translation

Collections of Rodríguez Núñez’s poetry has been translated into the following languages:
  • English
  • French
  • Italian
  • Serbian
  • Swedish
A wide selection of his poetry has also been translated into Arabic, Dutch, German, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Portuguese, Russian, and Slovenian.

Cultural journalism

During the eighties Rodríguez Núñez wrote for and was the editor of El Caimán Barbudo, one of Cuba’s leading cultural magazines, where he published dozens of articles on literature and film. A selection of his interviews with Hispanic poets appears in La poesía sirve para todo.
He is currently the assistant director of the Mexican cultural journal, ''La Otra.''

Literary criticism

Rodríguez Núñez has compiled three influential anthologies that have defined his poetic generation:
  • Cuba: En su lugar la poesía
  • Usted es la culpable: Nueva poesía cubana
  • El pasado del cielo: La nueva y novísima poesía cubana
Most recently, he introduced and compiled a major anthology of 20th century poetry in Cuba, Poesía cubana: Antología esencial, for the Spanish publisher Visor.
His book-length study on Gabriel García Márquez’s non-fiction, Cien años de solidaridad was awarded the Enrique José Varona Prize in 1986.
Rodríguez Núñez has published various critical editions, introductions, and essays on Spanish American poets including:

Translation

Rodríguez Núñez is also a translator.
From Spanish into English, titles include:
From Spanish into English:
He is an Associate Editor for Salt Publishing’s Earthwork’s Series of Latin American Poetry in Translation.

Interviews, essays and reviews

  • José Ángel Leyva. “Víctor Rodríguez Núñez: La poesía es algo más que literatura”. La Otra 14 : 39-47.
  • Roberto Méndez Martínez. “Víctor Rodríguez Núñez: Hacia la medianoche”. La Otra 14 : 49-51.
  • Hugo Mujica. “Todo está al otro lado de la noche”. Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos 736 : 103-114.
  • Armando Chávez Rivera. “Víctor Rodríguez Núñez: Escobamarga y curujeyes”. Cuba per se: Cartas de la diáspora. Cincuenta escritores cubanos responden sobre su vida fuera de la Isla. Miami: Universal, 2009. 479-488.
  • Reina María Rodríguez. “Las Actas de medianoche de VRN”. Actas de medianoche y otros poemas. By Rodríguez Núñez. Havana: Torre de Letras, 2008. 5-9.
  • Juan Manuel Roca. “Postal de medianoche”. Los poemas de nadie y otros poemas. By Rodríguez Núñez. Medellin: Tecnológico de Antioquia, 1994.