Rodolfo Häsler was born in 1958 in Santiago de Cuba. He studied Literature at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. A poet and translator, Häsler’s poems have been published in several volumes. His work has been presented in numerous anthologies, including Anthologie de la Poésie Cubaine du XXème. Siècle and Nueva Poesía Latinoamericana, and translated into English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Turkish. He has translated the complete poems of Novalis into Spanish, and also the translated Kafka. Häsler has been living in Barcelona since 1968, where he is co-editor of Poesía-Barcelona magazine.