Carlos Pintado (born 1974 in Cuba) is a Cuban–American writer, playwright and award-winning poet who immigrated to the United States in the early 90s. He received the prestigious 2014 Paz Prize for Poetry for his book '' Nine coins/Nueve Monedas'' awarded by the National Poetry Series and published in a bilingual edition by Akashic Press. His book ''Autorretrato en azul'' received the Sant Jordi's International Prize for Poetry and his ''El azar y los tesoros'' was one of the finalists for
Adonais Prize
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Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey (born April 26, 1966) is an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and again in 2013. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection ''Native Guard'', and she is a former List of U ...
. Some of his works have been published on World Literature Today, The American Poetry Review, The New York Times, Raspa Magazine, among others.
In praising Pintado’s work, United States' Presidential Inaugural poet Richard Blanco has written: “The urgency and presence in Pintado’s poems feel as if the poet’s very life depended on writing them. They are possessed by a unique, intangible quality that arrests the reader and commands attention. His work is intimate yet boundless, moving easily between form and free verse, prose poems and long poems, whether capturing the everyday streets of Miami Beach or leading us into the mythic and mystical worlds of his imagination.”
In 2012, Carlos Pintado was one the judges of Gibara's Film Festival, along with Spanish singer and film maker Luis Eduardo Aute.
Biography
In 2010, the South Beach Chamber Ensemble released the "Quintet on Carlos Pintado Poems" a piano and string quintet based on his poems with concerts throughout United States led by the American composer Pamela Marshall and director Michael Andrews. The author has been an invited artist to the White Night or Sleepless Night performing among several musicians and artists of recognized artistic career.
Pintado practices Nichiren Buddhism since 2004 and is also a member of the worldwide Buddhist association Soka Gakkai International.
Published works
* La Seducción del Minotauro (short stories, 2000)
* Los bosques de Mortefontaine (poetry, 2007)
* Habitación a oscuras (Sant Jordi International Prize for poetry, 2007)
* Los Nombres de la noche (poetry, 2008)
* El azar y los tesoros (poetry, 2008)
* El unicornio y otros poemas (Poetry Anthology, editorial Ruinas Circulares, Argentina, 2011)
* Cuaderno del falso amor impuro (Editorial Tigres de Papel, Madrid, Spain, 2014)
* Taubenschlag (Editorial Capiro, Santa Clara, Cuba, 2015).
* La sed del último que mira (Sudaquia Editores, New York,2015).
* Nine coins/Nueve monedas (Winner of The National Poetry Series' 2014 Paz Prize for Poetry. Akashic Books 2015).
* El árbol rojo ( Ediciones Furtivas, 2022).
Awards and honors
* 2015 Included in World Literature Today's annual year-end list of notable translations.
* 2015 finalist for the 2015–2016 CINTAS Foundation Fellowship in Creative Writing.
* 2015 His poem "The moon" was selected by United States Poet Laureate and Pulitzer winner,
Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey (born April 26, 1966) is an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and again in 2013. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection ''Native Guard'', and she is a former List of U ...
to be the featured
poem of September's edition of The New York Times Magazine" and also listed among the 10 Best Poems of 2015 by Vancouver Poetry House.
* 2014 Recipient of 2014 Paz Prize for Poetry (The National Poetry Series). Judged by United States Inaugural poet Richard Blanco
* 2012 The San Francisco Girls Chorus sang his 'Rimas Tropicales".
* 2011 Idolos del sueño (piece for a soprano, clarinet, violin and piano, collaborated with CONTINUUM ENSemble in New York).
* 2010 Quinteto sobre los Poemas de Carlos Pintado" (Piano quintet interpreted by The South beach Music Ensemble based on his poems).
* 2007 Recipient of Sant Jordi International Prize for poetry.
* 2008 Shortlisted for Adonais International Prize for Poetry.
Collaborations
* ''Rimas Tropicales'' ("Tropical Rhymes")
A collection of his poetry titled ''Tropical Rhymes'' had its World Premiere in San Francisco in June 2011, by the
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. Music accompanying the poems was composed by Tania León.
* "Idols of the dream"
Carlos Pintado's "Idolos del sueño" (Dream eidolons) was turned into a piece for a soprano, clarinet, violin, cello and piano by
Ileana Perez-Velazquez
Ileana Perez Velazquez is a Cuban-American composer and Professor of Composition at Williams College since 2000. She was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, and then studied as an undergraduate in piano and composition from the Higher Institute of Arts (I ...
, which was premiered in 2011 by
Continuum
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at
Kaufman Music Center
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.
''The Exile Experience: A Journey to Freedom''. Pintado was a contributor to this book, coordinated by Cuban American music producer Emilio Estefan.
Pintado has collaborated with Cuban musicians Gema and Pavel, as well as international superstar
Francisco Céspedes
Francisco Fabián Céspedes Rodríguez, also known as Pancho Céspedes (born 28 February 1957) is a Grammy-nominated Latin American singer, musician, and songwriter born in Santa Clara, Cuba. Céspedes is currently a naturalized Mexican. He is m ...
and in 2009 participated along with actor and sculptor Michel Hernandez on the project 'The Invention of the senses", a fusion of poetry and sculptures which is now part of the OPEN SPACES/ ESPACIO ABIERTO catalog of Miami's Centro Cultural Español. Pintado is also a contributor writer of Free Soul Dance Company directed by Belma Suazo and international actor
Francisco Gattorno
Francisco Alejandro Gattorno Sánchez (; born October 12, 1964), better known in the show business world plainly as Francisco Gattorno, is a Cuban-Mexican actor.
Biography
Francisco grew up in Santa Clara. He is a son of a Canarian father, an ...
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His articles have appeared in ''Vogue'' magazine in Spanish.