Roberto Méndez Martínez

Camagüey (Cuba), 1958. Poet, essayist and novelist. He has received, among other awards, the Nicolás Guillén Prize for poetry (2001 and 2024), the Alejo Carpentier Prize for essay (2007 and 2017) and for novel (2011) and the Italo Calvino Prize for the Novel (2014), as well as the international essay prizes José María Heredia (Mexico, 2004), Mariano Picón Salas (Venezuela, 2011) and the Cervantino Essay Prize (Mexico, 2014). He has published more than forty volumes. His most recent works include José Lezama Lima, otra lectura (José Lezama Lima, another reading) (Editorial Universitaria Bonó, 2021), Música nocturna para un hereje (Nocturnal music for a heretic) (Casa Vacía, 2022), Diario de la epidemia (Diary of the epidemic) (D'McPherson, 2022), Y después de este destierro (And after this exile) (Ediciones Universal, 2023).

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