Rafael Rojas

Rafael Rojas is a Cuban historian and essayist exiled in Mexico. He is the author of various books on the intellectual and political history of Mexico, Cuba, and Latin America, one of which, Tumbas sin sosiego: Revolución, disidencia y exilio del intelectual cubano (2006) was awarded the Premio Anagrama. In 2009, he won the First Isabel de Polanco Essay Prize for his work Las repúblicas de aire: Utopía y desencanto en la Revolución de Hispanoamérica. He is currently a professor of the History Division of the CIDE and a Global Scholar at Princeton University. His latest books are La polis literaria: El boom, la Revolución y otras polémicas de la Guerra Fría (Taurus, 2017), Fighting over Fidel: The New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution (Princeton UP, 2016), and La vanguardia peregrina: El escritor cubano, la tradición y el exilio (FCE, 2013).