Nancy Morejon, 80 years of a literary diva in Cuba

Cuban literature celebrates poet and essayist Nancy Morejon's 80th birthday on Wednesday with the most exquisite verses, carrying in her soul wherever her prose enchants, the land of her birth.
 
This feeling accompanies the 2001 National Prize for Literature winner, whose words were echoed by colleagues and admirers who dedicated her a well-deserved tribute at Villena Hall of the National Association of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC) in this capital on Tuesday.

I am passionate about writing, I never stop creating, I receive inspiration but my writing does not depend on it, even with the sight that no longer accompanies me, I always feel the need to write something and now I am focused on my autobiography, she said.

This author’s work, touched by her admiration for national poet Nicolas Guillen, defends what identifies us as Cubans, she said during the evening, attended by poet and ethnologist Miguel Barnet, honorary president of UNEAC, among other prominent artists and intellectuals.

Barnet stressed, “I admire not only Nancy’s qualities as a writer but also as a person. It has been a relationship of total complicity; her point of view; her love for our culture; and our values.”

In exclusive statements to Prensa Latina, during her visit to the United States to attend an academic event at the University of Missouri and a poetry festival in Chicago, Illinois, Morejon offered a preview of her memoirs, which will be entitled “Alambre dulce” and “Gallo pinto.”

In the US capital, Morejon also delighted her texts and recorded 12 works that praised her poetic collection present at the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape (AHLOT) at the Library of Congress.

Nancy Morejon graduated in French Language and Literature at the University of Havana in 1966 and has been a full Cuban Academy of Languages member since 1999.

She has received several awards and recognitions due to her virtuosity with the written word, which allowed her to travel and share her art in other countries.

She is the literary voice that seduces like a beautiful symphony, the one that never dies, she lives forever in the pleasure of a universe as extraordinary as her wit.