Odette Alonso (born 1964) is a poet, storyteller, essayist, and promoter of

Cuban literature Cuban literature is the literature written in Cuba or outside the island by Cubans in Spanish language. It began to find its voice in the early 19th century. The major works published in Cuba during that time were of an abolitionist character. Not ...

. She has a degree in

philology Philology () is the study of language in Oral tradition, oral and writing, written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also de ...

. She currently lives in Mexico, where she has resided since 1992.

Biography

Odette was born in

Santiago de Cuba Santiago de Cuba is the second-largest city in Cuba and the capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province. It lies in the southeastern area of the island, some southeast of the Cuban capital of Havana. The municipality extends over , and contains t ...

in 1964. She is a member of the Network of Female Latin American Writers
Red de Escritoras Latinoamericas [RELAT
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/nowiki>, the Writers' and Artists' Union of Cuba (Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba), and the Union of Women Writers of the Antilles (Unión de Mujeres Escritoras de las Antillas [UMEDA] ). Currently, she is an editor of the Dirección de Publicaciones of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM). She has published a book of Short story, short stories ''Con la boca abierta'' in Spain in 2006 and the novel ''Espejo de tres cuerpos'' in Mexico through Quimera Ediciones in 2009. She is the compiler of a poetry anthology called ''Las cuatro puntas del pañuelo''. Her project "Poetas cubanos de la diáspora" won one of the prizes of the 2003 Cuban Artists Fund in New York City. It was published under the title ''Antología de la poesía cubana del exilio'' by Aduana Vieja Editorial in

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in 2011.

Works

Poetry collections * ''Enigma de la sed'', Cuba, 1989. * ''Historias para el desayuno'', Cuba, 1989 (Prize "Adelaida del Mármol" 1989). * ''Palabra del que vuelve'', Cuba, 1996 (Prize "Pinos Nuevos," poetry 1996). * ''Linternas'', New York City, 1997. * ''Visiones'', Mexico, 2000. * ''Insomnios en la noche del espejo'', Mexico, 2000 (Premio Internacional de Poesía "Nicolás Guillén", Mexico, 1999). * ''Antología cósmica de Odette Alonso'', Mexico, 2001. * ''Diario del caminante'', Mexico, 2002. * ''Cuando la lluvia cesa'', Spain, 2003. * ''El levísimo ruido de sus pasos'', Spain, 2005. * ''Escombros del alma'', France, 2011 * ''Manuscrito hallado en alta mar'', Mexico, 2011

Prizes and recognition

* Premio "Adelaida del Mármol", Cuba, 1989. * Premio Pinos Nuevos de Poesía, Cuba, 1996. * Premio Internacional de Poesía "Nicolás Guillén", Mexico, 1999. * Cuban Artists Fund, New York City, 2003.

References

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