Eliades Acosta Matos (born January 4, 1959 in
Santiago de Cuba) is a
Cuba
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n politician, the former director of Cuba's
Jose Marti National Library (1997–2007) and until 2003 he was head of Committee on Culture on the
Cuban Communist Party
The Communist Party of Cuba ( es, Partido Comunista de Cuba, PCC) is the sole ruling party of Cuba. It was founded on 3 October 1965 as the successor to the United Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution, which was in turn made up of the 26t ...
’s Central Committee. Writer polítical and histórical books, articules and essays included three novels. Since 2010 living in Dominican Republic, and working for the National Archive and Juan Bosch Foundation am
In 2012, International Prix Pedro Henriquez Ureña, Ateneo Dominicano. In 2016, Prix Caonabo de Oro, for the best foreigner writer in Dominican Republic this year.
References
Biblioteca Nacional "Jose Marti" webpage on Eliades AcostaCuba Encuentro article
1959 births
Living people
People from Santiago de Cuba
Communist Party of Cuba politicians
Cuban non-fiction writers
Cuban male writers
Male non-fiction writers
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