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Enrique Del Risco Arrocha (born in 1967) is a Cuban writer. He is the author of several works of fiction and essays. He has also published humoristic works and satirical articles for Cuban and Spanish publications under the pseudonym Enrisco.

Biography

Del Risco was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1967. He graduated from the University of Havana, where he studied history, and later went on to get a Ph.D. in Latin American literature at New York University (NYU) in 2005.

In 1995 he left Cuba as a political exile and settled in Spain. There, he worked as editor of the magazine “La Tribuna Hispana.” In 1997 he moved to the United States, where he continues to live at present. He has published several works of fiction in Cuba, Spain, and the United States. His doctoral thesis, entitled In Praise of Lightness: Cuban National Myths and their Literary Reworking in the Twentieth Century, was published by the Spanish publisher Editorial Colibrí (Madrid, 2008)[]. He is also coeditor of the book Minor Resistances 4: Anthology of the New North American and Caribbean Short Story (Madrid, 2005) with Ignacio Padilla and Ronaldo Menéndez. In 2007 Del Risco created with the musician Paquito D'Rivera and the writer Alexis Romay a new version of the classical zarzuela Cecilia Valdés entitled Cecilio Valdés, el rey de La Habana. In 2008 he was awarded the Fifth “Cortes de Cadiz” Latin American Short Story Award for his book What Will They Think of Us in Japan?[], published later that year by Editorial Algaida in Seville, Spain.

He is currently a lecturer in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at New York University (NYU).

Books:

As Enrisco:

Obras encogidas (La Habana, 1992), Pérdida y recuperación de la inocencia (La Habana, 1994), El Comandante ya tiene quien le escriba (Miami, 2003)]

As Enrique Del Risco:

Lágrimas de cocodrilo (Cádiz, 1998) Leve Historia de Cuba (Los Ángeles, 2007) ''Elogio de la levedad. Mitos nacionales cubanos y sus reescrituras literarias en el siglo XX'' (Madrid, 2008). ¿Qué pensarán de nosotros en Japón? (Sevilla, 2008)

References

El comandante ya tiene quien le escriba

Escritores que no existen: Entrevista con Enrique Del Risco

¿Qué pensarán de nosotros en Japón?