Name Orlando Rossardi Books Totalidad | Role Poet | |
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Born September 5, 1938
Havana, Cuba ( 1938-09-05 ) Occupation Poet, playwright, researcher | ||
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Orlando Rossardi (born September 5, 1938) is a Cuban American poet, playwright and a researcher in Latin American literature.
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Biography
Orlando Rossardi (pseudonym of Orlando Rodriguez Sardinas) 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 Rodriguez Sardinas 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 hegan working in 1984 for Radio Marti 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.
Orlando Rossardi published primarily poetry and his collections include El Diametro y lo Estero (1964), Que voy de vuelo (1970), Los espacios llenos (1991), Memoria de mi (1996), Los pies en la tierra (2006), Libro de las perdidas (2008), Casi la voz (2009), Canto en la Florida (2010), Fundacion del centro (2011) y Totalidad (2012).
His anthology, La ultima poesia 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 Contemporanea (1976) the three volumes on Teatro Selecto Hispanoamericano Contemporaneo (1971), as well as an essay on the Colombian avantgarde poet Leon de Greiff: una poetica de vanguardia (1974).
Rossardi is a member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Espanola) 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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