Alexis Díaz Pimienta

Alexis Díaz-Pimienta (Havana, 1966). Writer and improviser, researcher and teacher, Alexis Díaz-Pimienta is the founder of the Chair of Improvised Poetry at the University of Arts of Cuba and associate professor at Loyola University of Seville (Spain).

He has published 55 books in various genres (poetry, novels, short stories, essays, literature for children and adolescents), and his works have been translated into English, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Bulgarian, Finnish, Japanese, and Farsi in journals and anthologies.

He received the Archiletras Language Prize in 2023 and has won seven international poetry awards and four fiction awards (novels and short stories) in Cuba, Spain, and Mexico, including the UNAM-COLSIN-Síglo XXI International Prize, the Ibero-American Prize of the Cortes de Cádiz, and the Casa de las Américas Prize.

His essay on the improvisation of décimas won the prestigious international “Margit Frenk – Lyra Mínima” Prize from UNAM and the Colegio de México, and his Theory of Poetic Improvisation won the annual Cultural Research Prize from the “Juan Marinello” Center.