Juana Rosa Pita

In 1985 she was awarded the VIII Premio Pisa Internazionale Ultimo Novecento in the section 'Poeti nel mondo "("it is so significant for Italian literature at the beginning of the century the life force of her poetry composed with an exemplary harmony, brilliant, concise and new, because it pursues no balancing of fashion, but springs from an expressive sensitivity orchestrated with an original rhythm ").

More recently she participated as a special guest in the congresses of the Università degli Studi di Firenze "La parola stuadiata e creata" - Celebration of Hispanicism, and "Cuba dentro e fuori" - Cuban literature of the XIX and XX centuries (May 2007 and May 2008, respectively).

Her poems, essays and articles can be found in publications in America and Europe, from La prensa literaria in Managua and Vuelta in Mexico to Cuadernos del Matemático, Alhucema and Diario de Cuba, from Spain.

She has translated several works from the Italian, including essays by Paolo Spinicci and Miguel de Unamuno, as well as poems by Antonia Pozzi and Valerio Magrelli.

Two Latin American composers have created, with some of her poems, art songs and other compositions: Cartas Interdimensionales by German Cáceres and "Epigramas" by Diana Arismendi.