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| Born | September 5, 1938 Havana, Cuba |
| Occupation | Poet, playwright, researcher |
Orlando Rossardi (born September 5, 1938) is a Cuban poet, playwright and a researcher in Latin American literature.
Orlando Rossardi | |
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| Born | September 5, 1938 Havana, Cuba |
| Occupation | Poet, playwright, researcher |
Orlando Rossardi (born September 5, 1938) is a Cuban poet, playwright and a researcher in Latin American literature.
Orlando Rossardi (pseudonym of Orlando Rodríguez Sardiñas) was born in Havana, Cuba in 1938. He left the island in 1960, and has since been living in Spain and in the United States.
Orlando Rodríguez Sardiñas obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Texas, Austin, and taught at the University of New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Miami Dade College in Florida.
He began working in 1984 for Radio Martí in Washington, D.C, and later at their office in Miami, FL, as programming coordinator and subsequently deputy director, dedicating twenty years of his life to the broadcasting services of the United States Government. [1]
Orlando Rossardi published primarily poetry and his collections include El Diámetro y lo Estero (1964), Que voy de vuelo (1970), Los espacios llenos (1991), Memoria de mí (1996), Los pies en la tierra (2006), Libro de las pérdidas (2008), Casi la voz (2009), Canto en la Florida (2010), Fundación del centro (2011) y Totalidad (2012).
His anthology, La última poesía cubana (1973), is considered by critics the first major work bringing together the Cuban poets both from the island and from exile.
His other works include six volumes of Historia de la Literatura Hispanoamericana Contemporánea (1976) the three volumes on Teatro Selecto Hispanoamericano Contemporáneo (1971), as well as an essay on the Colombian avant garde poet León de Greiff: una poética de vanguardia (1974).
Rossardi is a member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española) [2] and Correspondent of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language in Madrid, Spain. His research contributions can be found in encyclopedias, dictionaries, and literary magazines in Spain and Latin America as well as in the United States.
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