Roberto González Echevarría (born 1943) is a Cuban-born critic of Latin American literature and culture.
[4] After receiving his doctorate with a thesis titled 'Aproximación estructuralista a 'La vida es sueno,' ensayo de un método' , González Echevarría taught at Yale and then at Cornell (1971-1977).
[5] Since 1977, he has taught at Yale, where he was awarded the first endowed chair in Spanish (R. Selden Rose) in 1985.
[5] His Myth and Archive won the 1989–90 MLA's Katherine Singer Kovács Prize[6] and the Latin American Studies Association's 1992 Bryce Wood Book Award,[7] and The Pride of Havana received the Dave Moore Award for the Best Baseball Book of 2002.
[7] His Lecturas y relecturas won the 2013 Premio Annual de la Crítica (Book Prize in Criticism) in Cuba.