Poetess, critic and essayist holding great sensitivity and Cubaness, leaning her topics towards daily life and the richest traditions of her land essentially.

She was born on August 7, 1944 in Havana. Her creation highlights a huge essayist work about National Poet Nicolás Guillén's labor.

In 1962, she publishes her first poems book Mutismos (Muteness), in the same year she was included in the anthology Cuban New Poetry. In 1966, she graduated from French Language and Literature at Havana University.


In 1980, gained ''Enrique José Varona'' National Prize of Essay from Writers and Artists Union of Cuba with her book Nación y Mestizaje en Nicolás Guillén (Nation and Miscegenation in Nicolás Guillén), a must for specialists. Around 1983 this work was also bestowed with Mirta Aguirre Prize. Her huge literary work, poems and essays has been translated to English, French and German and published in lots of countries.

Among 1986 and 1993, she was in charge of Studies of the Caribbean Center from Casa de las Américas, assuming this responsability again on 2000. Since 1991, she is Member from Sciences Academy of Cuba.

Nancy has gained four times the Critic Prize with her books: Nación y Mestizaje en Nicolás Guillén (Nation and Miscegenation in Nicolás Guillén), 1982; Piedra Pulida (Polished Stone), 1986; Elogio y Paisaje (Eulogize and Landscape), 1997 and La Quinta de los Molinos, 2000.

In Mario Benedetti's opinion on 1991...
''Nancy Morejón is one of the most original poetic voices in Cuba after 1959. Being translated to different languages and translator at the same time, her poetic labor together with her critic and essayist work, have transformed her in a unavoidable figure of Cuban literary reality. (...)
Love and city will be a permanent theme; they are her two discoveries, her revelations. Faithful reader in different languages, she takes surrealistic vibrations and the communicative capacity in the conversational poetry, adding provocative explorations to her definitive-original labor.

More information at Premios Nacionales de Literatura and in Portal Cubarte.