René Vázquez Díaz

René Vázquez Díaz is a Cuban-Swedish writer and translator,[1] winner of the Radio France Internationale's Juan Rulfo Award 2007[2] for his novel Welcome to Miami Doctor Leal[3](Latin American Literary Review Press, Pittsburgh 2009).

Vázquez Díaz holds a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences degree from the prestigious Escuela Vocacional de Vento in Havana.

In 1994 René Vázquez Díaz organized, in coordination with the Olof Palme International Center, the so-called Encuentro de Estocolmo, the first National Reconciliation Reunion of Cuban writers living in Cuba and in exile.

He has lectured at the universities of Uppsala, Lund, Sundsvall, Stockholm, Sevilla, Málaga, Havana, Mexico (UNAM), Ghent, Antwerpen, etc.

Professor Martin Fanzbach, from the University of Bremen, Germany, has called Vazquez Díaz “the lone wolf of Cuban literature”.