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Roberto Zurbano From Centro Habana website: Roberto Zurbano (San Nicolas de Bari, Havana, 1965). Essayist, editor and cultural critic. Published Ramon Rubiera. An Illusory Astra (1992), In Praise of the Reader (1994), Poetics of the Nineties (1995), and Nascent States: Cuban Literature and Postmodernism (1996). Has earned Awards April, Juan Marinello and Mirta Aguirre, too Giver Ia Scholarship and Cultural Journalism Premia twice. Author of dozens of articles and essays in Cuban and foreign magazines as Temas, Casa de las Americas, The Gazette, El Caiman Barbudo, Catauro, Moviemento, Caliban, Contrapunto and others. He specializes in the areas of literature, race, popular culture and alternative music. Currently developing the draft Libra Invisible Triangle Cuban twentieth century: literature, race and nation. He has been Editor-Founder of anthropological journal Catauro, founding director of digital literary magazine La isla en Peso and also Ia magazine Cuban hip hop movement. On the radio he has led daily cultural programs (Radio Metropolitana) and weekly (Radio Rebelde), also has a biweekly column of literary criticism on the TV show The Art site. It was national vice president of the association of Young Artists and Writers Hermanos Saiz (1996-2000) and the Writers Association of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC ,1999-2006). He develops his social activism as a fighter against racism and other forms of discrimination through his membership in the Project Board Color Cubano, Cuban Committee of the Slave Route Ia, Ia Ia Brotherhood of Blackness and other official spaces and alternatives. He has given lectures and workshops on academic and cultural institutions in Mexico, Spain, Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, United States, France, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Canada, Guadeloupe and Costa Rica. Has National Culture Distinction. Since 2006 has directed the Fondo Publishing House of the Americas. Google translation. (I tried but couldn't copy the photo from that page) source: http://www.centrohabana.sancristobal.cult.cu/index.php/en/literatura-y-periodismo/486-roberto-zurbano ------------------------------- From UNEAC webeite (Google translation.): Born:] February 9, 1965. BA in Hispanic Language and Literature from the University of Havana. He has received other courses in the House of the Americas, the Institute of Literature and Linguistics of Cuba and the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. Several books and his texts have earned national awards in the categories of review and testing. He is a member of the Hermanos Saiz Association, of which he was the vice president from 1996 to 1998 and member of the UNEAC, where it occupies a vice president of the Association of Writers. He serves also as Catauro editor of the Journal of Anthropology. With his project The Loneliness of the critical and other dropouts Grant scored GIVER Cuban Book Institute. A project is currently working its black tree in the dark city. (Ethnos, literature and nation: the triangle "invisible" Cuban twentieth century). Collaborate in Cuban and foreign publications addressing figures, books, groups, trends, issues and problems of literature and Cuban and Latin American culture, through critical approaches, theoretical and historical-literary shows the domain where a rigorous and updated instrumental that deconstructs hegemonic platitudes and schemes and / or colonized surviving in critical thinking and Latin American Cuban literature of the end of the century. Awards: Award "and Solfa Letter" (1994) Essay Prize "Juan Marinello". Award "April" (1995) test for the Poetics of the nineties: Earnings of expression?. New Pines Award (1996). Literary Criticism Award "Mirta Aguirre" (1999). National Cultural Journalism Award 2000. Reside in Havana Active Bibliography: Praise the reader (literary criticism), 1990. / Ramon Rubiera: A star illusory (historical-literary), 1992. / Poetics of the nineties: Earnings of expression?, (Essay), 1994. / Nascent states (Cuban Literature and Postmodernism) (essay), 1996. =========================== |
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| Roberto Zurbano
(San Nicolas de Bari, La Habana, 1965).
Ensayista,editor y critico cultural. Ha publicado Ramon Rubiera. Un
astra ilusorio (1992), Elogio del lector (1994) La poetica de los
noventa (1995) y Los estados nacientes: Literatura cubana y
postmodernidad (1996). Ha obtenidos los Premios Abril,Juan Marinello y
Mirta Aguirre, tambien Ia Beca Dador y el Premia de Periodismo Cultural
en dos oportunidades. Autor de decenas de articulos y ensayos en
revistas cubanas y extranjeras como Temas, Casa de las Americas, La
Gaceta, El Caiman Barbudo, Catauro, Movimiento, Caliban, Contrapunto y
otras. Se especializa en los temas de literatura, raza, cultura popular
y musicas alternativas. Actualmente desarrolla el proyecto de libra El
triangulo invisible del siglo XX cubano: Literatura, raza y nacion.
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