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List Of Cuban Writers
A list of Cuban writers, including novelists, poets, and critics: Cuban authors and writers have influenced and shaped the history of the world. Throughout the years many of their contributions have caused radical shifts: from social movements to global perspectives in the Americas and beyond. A * Brígida Agüero (1837–1866), poet * Mirta Aguirre (1912–1980), poet, novelist, and journalist * Magaly Alabau (born 1945), poet * Dora Alonso (1910–2001), author and journalist * Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990), openly gay poet, novelist, and playwright, author of '' Before Night Falls'' () B * Joaquín Badajoz (born 1972), poet and writer * Gastón Baquero (1916–1997), poet and writer * Miguel Barnet, anthropologist and testimonialist * Antonio Benítez-Rojo (1931–2005), author and critic * Pedro Luis Boitel (1931–1972), poet and dissident * Mariano Brull (1891–1956), postmodern poet C * Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991), anthropologist and poet * Guillermo Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Movement
A social movement is a loosely organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a social or political one. This may be to carry out a social change, or to resist or undo one. It is a type of group action and may involve individuals, organizations, or both. Social movements have been described as "organizational structures and strategies that may empower oppressed populations to mount effective challenges and resist the more powerful and advantaged elites". They represent a method of social change from the bottom within nations. Political science and sociology have developed a variety of theories and empirical research on social movements. For example, some research in political science highlights the relation between popular movements and the formation of new political parties as well as discussing the function of social movements in relation to agenda setting and influence on politics. Sociologists distinguish between several types of social mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onelio Jorge Cardoso
Onelio Jorge Cardoso (May 14, 1914 in Calabazar de Sagua, Cuba – May 29, 1986 in Havana, Cuba) was a Cuban editor, screenwriter, short fiction writer and party functionary. Biography and career Cardoso was born in Calabazar de Sagua, nearby Encrucijada, Cuba. He was unable to complete his high school studies due to his family's economic problems, employing himself in different trades to support his family. One of these was as a traveling salesman, a job that allowed him to get to know different places and people within Cuba that would serve as models for the setting and characters of several of his stories. He started writing at a young age, winning a short story writing contest in 1936. However, it was not until 1945 when he became known by winning the "Alfonso Hernández Catá" contest with a story entitled "Coalmen" (''Los carboneros''). In 1945, he published in Mexico his first book, ''Taita, you tell me how'' (''Taita, diga usted cómo''). In 1948, he settled in Hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Fernández Retamar
Roberto Fernández Retamar (9 June 1930 – 20 July 2019, Havana) was a Cuban poet, essayist, literary critic and President of the Casa de las Américas. In his role as President of the organization, Fernández also served on the Council of State of Cuba. An early close confidant of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, he was a central figure in Cuba from the 1959 Revolution until his death in 2019. Fernández also wrote over a dozen major collections of verse and founded the Casa de las Americas cultural magazine. Professor Joao Cesar Castro de Rocha, at the University of Manchester has described Retamar as "one of the most distinguished Latin American intellectuals of the twentieth century." In 1989, he was awarded the National Prize for Literature, Cuba's national literary award and most important award of its type. On Caliban Responding to the arielismo of Jose Enrique Rodo, who used the Shakespeare created character Caliban as a metaphor for Latin American civilisation, Retamar i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Feijóo
Samuel Feijóo (March 31, 1914 in San Juan de los Yeras, Las Villas, Cuba – July 14, 1992 in La Habana, Cuba) was a Cuban writer and artist specializing in painting and illustration. Career Feijóo was a self-taught multifaceted artist and writer. He was a promoter of the popular artists movement in Las Villas, Cuba in 1960 and after he was vice-president of the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC) in the same province. Feijóo was the director of publications and editor at the Universidad Central de Las Villas and was founder and director at Signos' magazine in 1969. In the 1940s he published some collections of poems such as Comrade celeste (1944), Aventuras con los aguinaldos (1947) and Beth-el (1949), among others. His narrative work is marked by the rural environment, traditions, peasant folklore and Afro-Cuban mythology. His novel Juan Quinquín in Pueblo Mocho (1964) stands out significantly, as well as the volume of stories Storytelling, which earned him th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darío Espina Pérez
Darío Espina Pérez (October 25, 1920 – September 6, 1996) was a Cuban banker, agricultural engineer, lawyer, writer, and the founder and president of La Academia Poética de Miami, a literary society established in 1989. Biography Pérez was born in Limonar, Matanzas, Cuba, on October 25, 1920, to a family dedicated to beekeeping, Espina went on to author nearly forty technical and literary books and to co-author several more, all edited in collaboration with his wife, Hilda Díaz Espina. His writing received a number of awards, including the Premio Garcilaso de la Vega in 1995, given by the Instituto de Cultura Peruana for his poem ''La Naturaleza.'' In 1995 Espina was recognized as the teacher of the decade by the Cuadratura del Círculo Poético Iberoamericano in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the death of José Martí. He received his elementary education in public schools and through exams received a scholarship from the Ministry of Agriculture to study to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesús Díaz (writer)
Jesús Díaz (1941–2002) was a Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...n writer. References 1941 births 2002 deaths Cuban male writers Writers from Havana {{Cuba-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memorias Del Subdesarrollo
''Memories of Underdevelopment'' ( es, Memorias del Subdesarrollo) is a 1968 Cuban Drama (film and television), drama film written and directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. The story is based on a novel by Edmundo Desnoes entitled ''Inconsolable Memories'' (''Memorias del Subdesarrollo''). It was Gutiérrez Alea's fifth film, and probably his most famous worldwide. The film gathered several awards at international film festivals. It was elected the 144th best film of all time in the Sight & Sound 2012 poll. It was ranked by the ''New York Times'' as one of the 10 best films of 1968.Cinéaste, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Summer 1977), pp. 16-21, 58 Plot Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois aspiring writer, decides to stay in Cuba even though his wife and friends flee to Miami. Sergio looks back over the changes in Cuba, from the Cuban Revolution to the Cuban Missile Crisis, missile crisis, the effect of living in what he calls an underdevelopment, underdeveloped country, and his relations with his girlfri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmundo Desnoes
Edmundo Desnoes (Havana, Cuba, 1930), is a Cuban writer author of the novel ''Memorias del subdesarrollo'' (''Memories of Underdevelopment''), a complex story depicting the alienation of a Cuban bourgeois intellectual struggling to adapt to the process of the Revolution staying on the island after his family decides to leave the country. He originally called the work ''Inconsolable Memories'' in the first English edition. The book was adapted in 1968 into the seminal Cuban film of the same title ''Memorias del Subdesarrollo (Memories of Underdevelopment'') by the director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, the name by which it is also known in English. During the 1960s and 1970s, while living in Cuba, Desnoes wrote for the newspaper "La Revolucion" and was editor of art and literature for the ''Editorial Nacional de Cuba'' and ''El Instituto del Libro,'' and was a member of the editorial board of ''Casa de Las Americas'' and was also professor of Cultural History at the ''Escuela de Diseñ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domitila García De Coronado
Domitila García Doménico de Coronado (7 May 1847 – 1938) was a Cuban writer, journalist, editor, and professor, considered to be the first women to practice journalism in her country. Biography Domitila García Doménico de Coronado was born on 7 May 1847 in Camagüey, Cuba. On 17 May 1891 she founded the Academy of Women Typographers. She founded and edited various publications, including the journals ''La Antorcha'' and ''El Céfiro'' together with Sofía Estevez (1848–1901). Besides these, she was editor of ''La Mujer'', together with Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia and Isabel Margarita Ordetx. She also published the first anthology of Cuban women writers in 1868, titled ''Álbum poético fotográfico de escritoras cubanas'' (''Poetic photo album of Cuban women writers''), which included the biography of Emelina Peyrellade Zaldívar Emelina Peyrellade Zaldívar or Emelina Peyrellade (Camagüey, 1842–1877) was a Cuban writer and translator. Biography She was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique Cirules
Enrique Cirules (1938 – 18 December 2016) was a Cuban writer and essayist. He was born in Nuevitas, Camagüey Province. Biography Among his best known works are ''Conversation with the last American'' (1973), a non-fiction novel about the establishing, rise and fall of an American city in Cuba, ''The Other War'' (short stories, 1980), ''The Saga of La Gloria City'' (novel, 1983) and ''Bluefields'' (novel, 1986). His most famous work is ''Mafia in Havana'' (''El Imperio de La Habana'') which won the Casa de Las Américas Prize The Casa de las Américas Prize (''Premio Literario Casa de las Américas'') is a literary award given by the Cuban Casa de las Américas. Established in 1959, it is one of Latin America’s oldest and most prestigious literary prizes. The award ... for literature in 1993 and the Literary Critic's Award in 1994. ''Ernest Hemingway in the Romano Archipelago'' won a mention at the ''Casa de Las Américas'' in 1999. His most recent works are ''The Secret lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daína Chaviano
Daína Chaviano () (born 19 February 1957, Havana)Profile ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Accessed April 9, 2015. is a writer of French and Asturian descent. She has lived in the United States since 1991. She is considered one of the three most important female fantasy and science fiction writers in the Spanish language, along with (Argentina) and (Spain), forming the so-call ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Chavarria
Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength"), and derives from two early biblical figures, primary among them Daniel from the Book of Daniel. It is a common given name for males, and is also used as a surname. It is also the basis for various derived given names and surnames. Background The name evolved into over 100 different spellings in countries around the world. Nicknames (Dan, Danny) are common in both English and Hebrew; "Dan" may also be a complete given name rather than a nickname. The name "Daniil" (Даниил) is common in Russia. Feminine versions (Danielle, Danièle, Daniela, Daniella, Dani, Danitza) are prevalent as well. It has been particularly well-used in Ireland. The Dutch names "Daan" and "Daniël" are also variations of Daniel. A related surname develo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
