Biography

Jose Manuel Prieto was born in Havana, Cuba in 1962. He earned his PhD in History

History

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 in Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and has taught at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica

Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica

The Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas is a Mexican center of research and higher education, specialized in the fields of social sciences, with an international-grade level of excellence. It is financed with public resources...

, Mexico City

Mexico City

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, from 1994 to 2004. In 2004-2005 he was the Margaret and Herman Sokol Fellow at The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers in The New York Public Library. Prieto has been the recipient of fellowships, grants and awards from Sistema Nacional de Creadores, México, Jan. 2003-2005 the Santa Madalena Foundation, April del 2001, Florencia and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2002)

Prieto's books have been translated into English, French, German, Norwegian, Italian and Russian and are available through a number of prominent publishing houses, including Grove Press

Grove Press

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, Suhrkamp, Anagrama, Christian Bourgois , Время and Faber and Faber

Faber and Faber

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Prieto has translated poems by Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova

Anna Andreyevna Gorenko , better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova , was a Russian and Soviet modernist poet, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon.Harrington p11...

, and Josef Brodsky, as well as prose by Andrey Platonov, Vladimir Mayakovsky

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian and Soviet poet and playwright, among the foremost representatives of early-20th century Russian Futurism.- Early life :...

, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist...

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Prieto has lived in New York

New York

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 since 2004. He teaches literature at Seton Hall University

Seton Hall University

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Novels

• Enciclopedia de una vida en Rusia Barcelona: Mondadori,2003.
• Livadia Barcelona: Mondadori, 1999.
• Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire (Livadia), New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000
• Rex . España,: Anagrama, 2007.

Other works

• Nunca antes habias visto el rojo Cuba, 1995.
• Trenta días en Moscú Barcelona: Mondadori,2001.
• El tartamudo y la rusa Mexico: Tusquets 2002.
• Die Kubanische Revolution und wie erkläre ich sie meinem Taxifahrer, edition suhrkamp 2559, Broschur, 218 Seiten ISBN 978-3-518-12559-5

External links

• The New York Review Of Books, "Havana: The State Retreats"
• The New York Review of Books "Reading Mandelstam on Stalin"
• The Nation, "Travels by Taxi: Reflections on Cuba", 2009
• The Nation, "Puttin' on the Glitz: José Manuel Prieto's Rex"
• PEN World Voices Festival, New York, 2005. Biography
• The international literature festival, Berlin, 2003 Biography