Legna Rodríguez Iglesias

Legna Rodríguez Iglesias (born 1984) is an award-winning Cuban poet, playwright, and short story writer.[1] Her work is often characterized by absurdist humor and playfully perverse observations of everyday life in contemporary Cuba and Miami, as well as cross-genre experimentation with prose poetry and narrative poetry.[2] Four of her poems, in the original Spanish and in English translation, were featured in The Kenyon Review's 2018 special issue on new Cuban poetry.[3]

Personal life

She is originally from Camagüey, Cuba.[1] She currently lives in Miami, Florida.[4]

Honors

She was awarded the Julio Cortázar Ibero-American Short Story Prize in 2011 and the Casa de Las Américas Prize in Theater in 2016.[1] Her poetry collection Miami Century Fox (Akashic Books, 2017)[5] won the Paz Prize for Poetry in 2017.[6] In July 2018, her short story collection Mi novia preferida fue un bulldog francés (Alfaguara, 2017)[7] was nominated for the Gabriel García Márquez Hispano-American Short Story Prize by the Colombian Ministry of Culture and the National Library of Colombia.[8]

Works

Poetry
  • Chicle (ahora es cuando) (Havana: Cuba Editorial, 2016)
  • Hilo + hilo (Leiden: Bokeh, 2015)
  • Miami Century Fox (New York: Akashic Books, 2017)

Fiction
  • Hasta Feldafing no paro y otros relatos (Havana: Editorial Letras Cubanas, 2012)
  • Mi novia preferida fue un bulldog francés (Madrid: Alfaguara, 2017)
  • No sabe/no contesta (Havana: Editorial Caja China, 2015)

References
  1. "Legna Rodríguez Iglesias | Kenyon Review Conversations". The Kenyon Review. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
  2. Solano, Francisco (2017-03-29). "Un talento estridente". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
  3. "Editor's Notes & Cover Art | Journal". The Kenyon Review. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
  4. "Legna Rodríguez Iglesias: la literatura es un monstruo que se alimenta de lo que sea". elnuevoherald (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-09-20.
  5. Miami Century Fox.
  6. "Fiction Book Review: Miami Century Fox by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, trans. from the Spanish by Eduardo Aparicio. Akashic, $15.95 trade paper (120p) ISBN 978-1-61775-589-7". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
  7. Megustaleer (2017-02-09). Mi novia preferida fue un bulldog francés (in Spanish). ISBN 9788420430393.
  8. "Premio Hispanoamericano de cuento Gabriel García Márquez". www.premiohispanoamericanodecuentoggm.gov.co (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-09-18.
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