Antón Arrufat Mrad (14 August 1935 – 21 May 2023) was a Cuban dramatist, novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.

Life and career

Arrufat was born in

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on 14 August 1935. He was of mixed

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and Lebanese parentage. At the age of 11, he moved with his family from Santiago de Cuba to Havana. He studied philology at the

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. His first book appeared in 1962, a collection of his early poems. He won the Premio Nacional de Literatura de Cuba in 2000.
The Antón Arrufat Papers
are held at Princeton University Library. They consist "of manuscripts of poems, short stories, novels, and criticism by Antón Arrufat, Virgilio Piñera, and Witold Gombrowicz; and correspondence of Antón Arrufat." Arrufat died of bronchopneumonia on 21 May 2023, at the age of 87.

Works

* ''El caso se investiga'', pieza estrenada en 1957 * ''En claro'', poesía, 1962 * ''Mi antagonista y otras observaciones'', cuentos, 1963 * ''Repaso final'', poesía, 1963 * ''Teatro'', colección de piezas, 1963 * ''Todos los domingos'', teatro, 1964 * ''Escrito en las puertas'', poesía, 1968 * ''Los siete contra Tebas'' teatro, 1968 * ''La caja está cerrada'', novela, 1984 * ''La huella en la arena'', poesía, 1986 * ''La tierra permanente'', teatro, 1987 * ''¿Qué harás después de mí?'', cuentos, 1988 * ''Las pequeñas cosas'', prosas, 1988 * ''Cámara de amor'', teatro, 1994 * ''Lirios sobre un fondo de espadas'', poesía, 1995 * ''La divina Fanny'', teatro, 1995 * ''Virgilio Piñera: entre él y yo'', ensayo, 1995 * ''Ejercicios para hacer de la esterilidad virtud'', cuentos, 1998 * ''El viejo carpintero'', poesía, 1999 * ''La noche del Aguafiestas'', novela, 2000 * ''Las tres partes del criollo'', teatro, 2003 * ''El hombre discursivo'', ensayos, ed Letras Cubanas, 2005 * ''El convidado del juicio'', ensayos, ed. Ediciones Unión, 2015

References

1935 births 2023 deaths Cuban male writers Cuban dramatists and playwrights University of Havana alumni Cuban people of Catalan descent Cuban people of Lebanese descent People from Santiago de Cuba Deaths from bronchopneumonia Deaths from pneumonia in Cuba {{Cuba-writer-stub