| Breach of Trust/Abuso de confianza Ángel Escobar was born in Cuba's eastern province of Guantánamo in 1957. A student of theater, Escobar moved to Havana in 1977. His work includes the poetry collections Viejas palabras de uso (Old Well-Used Words), Cuéntame lo que me pasa ( Tell Me What's Happening to Me ), Cuando salí de La Habana ( When I Left Havana ), and the theater piece Ya nadie saluda al rey ( Now No One Greets the King ). His work received the Premio David in 1978 and the Premio Roberto Branly in 1985. Kristin Dykstra , recipient of the 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship, also translated Reina María Rodríguez's Other Letters to Milena / Otras cartas a Milena and Juan Carols Flores's The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems) / El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales) , as well as various other books of Cuban poetry. |