Biographies: Guillermo Cabrera Infante - Writer

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A Cuban novelist, writer and translator, born on April 22, 1929. His family moved to Havana, the capital, and he completed his secondary education there. He then joined the Cuban School of Journalism, while working in several jobs due to poverty. After graduating in 1952, he went to prison because of some words he used in a story he wrote that year. In 1953, he began writing for cinema under a pseudonym. At the end of Batista's dictatorship, he contributed to the publication of the secret newspaper (Revolution), and continued to write in it, specifically in the literary supplement, after the success of the revolution led by Fidel Castro, until the government closed the supplement in 1961. In 1963, he published his book (A Profession of the Twentieth Century), and was appointed cultural attaché in Brussels, and won the Barcelona Library Prize for his novel (Three Sad Tigers). He emigrated first to Spain, and then to London, where he lived from then until his death. He won the Cervantes Literary Prize in 1997. Cabrera Infante died in London on February 21, 2005.

• 10 October 2024
• farah ashraf