Roberto González Echevarría

Who is Roberto González Echevarría?

Roberto González Echevarría is a Cuban-born critic of Latin American literature and culture. He is the Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature at Yale University.

His Myth and Archive won the 1989-90 MLA’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize and the Latin American Studies Association’s 1992 Bryce Wood Book Award, and The Pride of Havana received the Dave Moore Award for the Best Baseball Book of 2002. His Love and the Law in Cervantes had its origin in his 2002 DeVane Lectures at Yale.

An international symposium was held in his honor at the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Arecibo and an issue of Encuentro de la cultura cubana was published in his honor. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In March 2011, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal of 2010 by President Obama.