Rogelio Rodríguez’s
El rastro chino en la literatura cubana [Chinese Traces in Cuban Literature] has won Cuba’s 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award. His essay examines the presence of Chinese culture in Cuban literature.
The emblematic
Paradiso, by José Lezama Lima, or
Mi tío, el empleado, by Ramón Meza, are two of the works that Rogelio Rodríguez examined in his original essay
El rastro chino en la literatura cubana, a recent winner of the National Prize of the Círculo de Book Critics 2020.
The common thread of the work is the tradition that has managed to take root, through generations of Chinese descendants, in the cultural heart of the island, to sustain a fluid dialogue between two peoples so geographically distant.