Félix Pita Rodriguez (1909-1990) 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 Caribb ...

n journalist, poet and

literary critic Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. ...

. He was born in Bejucal. An active communist, Rodriguez helped to found the

Ibero-American Anti-Fascist Committee Ibero-America ( es, Iberoamérica, pt, Ibero-América) or Iberian America is a region in the Americas comprising countries or territories where Spanish or Portuguese are predominant languages (usually former territories of Portugal or Spain) ...

during the

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. His literary acquaintances included

Pablo Neruda Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Nerud ...

. He was exiled from Cuba for many years, living in Latin America and Europe. After Castro's overthrow of the Batista government, he returned to Cuba in 1960. He won Cuba's

National Literary Prize National Prize for Literature (''Premio Nacional de Literatura de Cuba'') is the national literature prize of Cuba. It has been given annually since 1983 and recognizes those writers who have enriched the legacy of Cuban literature. It has been ca ...

in 1985.Profile
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Works

* ''San Abul de Montecallado'', 1945 * ''Corcel de Fuego'', 1948 * ''Tobías'', 1955 * ''Las Noches'', 1964 * ''Historia tan Natural'', 1971 * ''Niños de Vietnam'', 1974 * ''Poesía y Prosa'', 1976 * ''La Pipa de Cerezo'', 1987 * ''Asesor Literario de la Serie de la TV Cubana- En silencio ha tenido que ser'', 1979

References

Cuban male poets Cuban journalists Male journalists Cuban literary critics 1909 births 1990 deaths 20th-century journalists {{Cuba-writer-stub