Víctor Rodríguez Núñez was born in Havana, Cuba in 1955. Poet, critic and editor, he has published eighteen books of poetry, for which he has received a number of international prizes. He is currently working on an anthology of Welsh poetry in Spanish translation for the South American market. He was invited as a Translators' House Wales translator in residence in March 2012 where he worked with critic, editor and translator, Katherine M. Hedeen, and where both had the opportunity to meet with a number of Welsh poets whilst researching the anthology.