Rodolfo Häsler

Rodolfo Häsler (Santiago de Cuba, 1958) is a Swiss-Cuban poet and translator. He studied Literature at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Among his books of poetry are Poemas de arena (1982), Tratado de licantropía (1988), Elleife (1993, 2018, Aula de Poesía de Barcelona Prize), De la belleza del puro pensamiento (1997, Oscar Cintas Foundation Fellowship), Poemas de la rue de Zurich (2000), and Lengua de lobos (2021, XII Claudio Rodríguez International Poetry Prize). He has translated the complete poetry of Novalis (DVD Ediciones, Barcelona, ​​2001) and Kafka’s short stories (Editorial Thule, Barcelona, ​​2006). He curated the edition of Bolivian poet Blanca Wiethüchter’s poetry anthology, El festín de la flama (Editorial La Cabra, Mexico City, 2012).

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