With a poetic production that spans more than half a century and has achieved enormous popularity, Nancy Morejon was awarded the Cuban National Literature Prize in 2001. Morejon's most recent awards are the Gold Crown of Macedonia (2006), the Rafael Alberti Award (2007), plus the Gallega Universal Writer (2008) and the prestigious Latin American Studies Association Award (2012). In 2013 she was awarded the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic. In 2008, Morejon was elected president of the Association of Writers of the Union Nacional de Escritores y Artistas Cubanos (UNEAC), a posit...