“René Vázquez Díaz is a lone wolf in the cuban literature.”
Prof. Martin Franzbach, University of Bremen, Germany.

René Vázquez Díaz (1952). Swedish-Cuban writer, translator and journalist. Winner of Radio France Internationale’s Juan Rulfo Award 2007. Member of the Board of The Swedish Writers Union and member of the Swedish PEN Club. He belongs to the Klassikergruppen of the Swedish State Council of Culture, and he writes for Le Monde Diplomatique, Ordfront, El Viejo topo and other newspapers and magazines. He has published eight novels, essays and poetry, and he’s author of the Cuban trilogy La era imaginaria (1986), La isla del Cundeamor (1995) and Un amor que se nos va (2006). He’s cookbook El sabor de Cuba (2002) is a mixture of short stories and Cuban food.
Vázquez Díaz worked as a project manager in The Olof Palme International Centre (Stockholm). As a result of his work, the Center published the following books: Bipolaridad de la Cultura Cubana (1994), Health & Nutrition in Cuba: Effects of the US Embargo (1999) and Textos para cerrar un siglo (1999). He has translated twelve Swedish books into Spanish and his own works have been translated into Swedish, French, Italian, English and Finnish. He was born in Caibarien, in the northern coast of central Cuba, and he currently resides in Sweden.