The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Roberto Márquez, born and raised in Spanish Harlem, New York, is a writer, editor, translator, and literary critic. After he received a BA from Brandeis University, he went on to earn an MA and PhD from Harvard University. Márquez was also awarded postdoctoral fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Tinker Foundation, and the Coordinating Council on Literary Magazines. He is the 1966 recipient of the Dorothy Blumenfeld Moyer Prize. His literary translations of Latin American and Caribbean poets and writers have received widespread recognition, and he was the editor and translator of Puerto Rican Poetry: An Anthology from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times (University of Massachusetts Press, 2006), and the editor of Latin American Revolutionary Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology (Monthly Review Press, 1974). Márquez’s work has been published in Sin nombre, Casa de Las Américas, Escritura, Jamaica Journal, West Indian Guide, Anales del Caribe, Ideologies and Literature, Latin American Research Review, the New York Times Book Review, the Village Voice Literary Supplement, the Latino Review of Books, and the Latino/a Research Review. He is professor emeritus of Latin American and Caribbean studies at Mount Holyoke College.

Works Cited

“Roberto Márquez.” Mount Holyoke University, www.mtholyoke.edu/directory/emeriti-retired-faculty/roberto-marquez.