Jose Manuel Prieto

Jose Manuel Prieto
Born (1962-05-22) 22 May 1962
Havana, Cuba
Occupation writer
Nationality Cuban
Literary movement Postmodernism
Website
josemanuelprieto.com

Jose Manuel Prieto is a Cuban novelist, translator and scholar.

Biography

Jose Manuel Prieto was born in Havana, Cuba in 1962.[1] He earned his PhD in History in Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and has taught at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica, Mexico City, from 1994 to 2004. In 2004-2005 he was the Margaret and Herman Sokol Fellow at The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers in The New York Public Library. Prieto has been the recipient of fellowships, grants and awards from Sistema Nacional de Creadores, México, January 2003 – 2005 the Santa Madalena Foundation, April del 2001, Florencia and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2002)

Prieto's books have been translated into English, French, German, Norwegian, Italian and Russian and are available through a number of prominent publishing houses, including Grove Press, Suhrkamp, Anagrama, Christian Bourgois, Время and Faber and Faber .

Prieto has translated poems by Anna Akhmatova, and Josef Brodsky, as well as prose by Andrey Platonov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Vladimir Nabokov.

Prieto has lived in New York City since 2004. He teaches literature at Seton Hall University.

Works

Novels

Other works

References

  1. Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience (2012) Jacqueline Loss, José Manuel Prieto, Palgrave Macmillan, pxii ISBN 9781137031341

External links

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