Reina María Rodríguez Author

Born in Cuba in 1952, Reina María Rodríguez is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including Las fotos de la Señora Loss, La detención del tiempo/Time’s Arrest (bilingual edition), Bosque negro, and Violet Island and Other Poems (bilingual anthology). She is a twotime winner of the prestigious Casa de las Américas prize for poetry, having also received multiple Julián del Casal and National Critics’ Awards. She was awarded the Italo Calvino award for her first novel. In 1999 Rodríguez was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in France.

Kristin Dykstra translated Reina María Rodríguez’s La detención del tiempo/Time’s Arrest and cotranslated Rodríguez’s Violet Island and Other Poems. She was the recipient of the 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship.