Edelmis Anoceto Vega

Poet, editor, literary translator, and graduate in English Language and Literature from Universidad de La Habana in 1964.

He obtained first prize in poetry at the Municipal Meeting of Literary Workshops of Santa Clara (1997); Batalla de Mal Tiempo award in décima (2000); the award from the XII Cuban Poetry Day in Sancti Spíritus; El Girasol Sediento Creation Grant, with the poetry collection Imago Mundi; national sonnet award "Antonio Rodríguez Castro" of Sancti Spíritus (2001); poetry award Ciudad del Che of Santa Clara (2002); literary award Fundación de la Ciudad de Santa Clara in Décima (2004); national poetry award "Manuel Navarro Luna", with Días de reparaciones (2005); first poetry prize from the national Hermanos Loynaz contest with Desertor del cielo (2007); Dador Poetry Award, with Agujero negro (2008). He appears in the anthologies: Los parques (2001), Yo he visto un cangrejo arando (2004) and El poeta eres tú (2007).

Personal works: Cantos del bajo delta (1998); De todas las almas creadas (1998) (Notebook of translations of poems by Emily Dickinson); A una alondra y otros poemas (2003) (Notebook of translations of poems by Percy B. Shelley.); Mortgana (2002) (Calendario Poetry Award); Imago Mundi (2002); La cólera de Aquiles (2005), La cosecha y el incendio (2005), Desertor del cielo (2007) (Dador Poetry Award, 2007), Poemas agrestes (Translations of Robert Frost). Dador Poetry Award, with Agujero negro (2008). Essay Award from the National José Jacinto Milanés Award, convened by cultural institutions and Uneac, in Matanzas, 2012 for the book "Nido de aves cantoras. Acercamientos a la poesía inglesa". Ciudad del Che Poetry Award, 2012, convened by the Uneac Branch in Villa Clara.

He appears in the anthologies: Los parques (2001), Yo he visto un cangrejo arando (2004) and El poeta eres tú (2007). Personal works: Cantos del bajo delta (1998); De todas las almas creadas (1998) (Notebook of translations of poems by Emily Dickinson); A una alondra y otros poemas (2003) (Notebook of translations of poems by Percy B. Shelley.); Mortgana (2002) (Calendario Poetry Award); Imago Mundi (2002); La cólera de Aquiles (2005), La cosecha y el incendio (2005), Desertor del cielo (2007) (Dador Poetry Award, 2007), Poemas agrestes (Translations of Robert Frost).

Member of the Asociación Hermanos Saíz since 1995.

Member of the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba. His work is characterized by the alternation of classical stanzas (sonnet and décima) and free verse, with very particular appropriations of classical Latin themes, used as pretexts to address current issues in an allegorical manner. In his poems, existential questioning of man is also frequent, as well as poetry creation itself, religion and the nostalgic relationship of being with the past.

Collaborations
He has collaborated in Ariel, Cauce, Juventud Rebelde, Cartacuba, Umbral, Hacerse el Cuerdo, Educación and Huella. His collaborations and poems have appeared in the magazines Huella, Caimán Barbudo and Videncia.

Translations
"Dos poetas norteamericanos", translation and note, cultural supplement Huella of the newspaper Vanguardia, Santa Clara, 1998.
De todas las almas creadas, by Emily Dickinson, Editorial Sed de Belleza, Santa Clara, 1998.
"Nuevos poetas norteamericanos", poems, Magazine Umbral, Santa Clara, 2002.
A una alondra y otros poemas, by Percy B. Shelley, Editorial Sed de Belleza, Santa Clara, 2002.