Rafael Courtoisie

Rafael Courtoisie (Montevideo, Uruguay) is a corresponding member of the Real Academia Española and an enrolled member of Uruguay’s Academia Nacional de Letras. He forms part of the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa. His book of essays Escrito sobre la peste (Huerga y Fierro Editores) was recently published in Madrid. His book Manual de poesía para resolver problemas domésticos (Animal Sospechoso Editor, Barcelona, 2024) was presented in various cities in Spain, as well as in Buenos Aires, Mexico City, New York, and Montevideo. His book Es un decir (Ediciones Liliputienses, Cáceres, 2024) was presented in Madrid, Badajoz, and Salamanca. His recent publications also include El libro de la desobediencia (novel, Editorial Nana Vizcacha, Madrid, 2019) and Antología inventada (Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico City, 2020; translated and published in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Greek). Caras extrañas, one of his novels with numerous editions in Spain, was recently republished with an introduction by Gioconda Belli. Among other recognitions, he has been awarded the Premio Fundación Loewe de Poesía (España, Editorial Visor, prize jury headed by Octavio Paz), the Premio Internacional Casa de América (Madrid) in poetry, the Premio Jaime Gil de Biedma, and the Premio Blas de Otero, and he was a finalist for the Premio Lara de Novela (Spain); the Premio Plural (Mexico, prize jury headed by Juan Gelman), the Premio Internacional Jaime Sabines (Mexico); the Premio Internacional de Poesía José Lezama Lima (Cuba); the Premio Nacional de Poesía, the Premio Nacional de Narrativa, the Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo in poetry and fiction, and the Premio Morosoli for distinguished literary career (Uruguay). His work has been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Uzbek, Bosnian, and Turkish, among other languages.