François Vallée is a professor, literature translator, art critic, and art collector. He has translated into French two novels by Nivaria Tejera, a memoir and a novel by Juan Abreu, as well as books of poems by Abreu and Ezequiel O. Suárez. Currently he is working on a book of interviews with seventy Cuban contemporary artists. Between 2022 and 2023 his collection of visual Cuban artists was exhibited in several French art institutions, such as Passerelle de Brest, 40mcube and Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes.