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Guillermo Cabrera Infante (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡiˈʝeɾmo kaˈβɾeɾa iɱˈfante]; Gibara, 22 April 1929 – 21 February 2005) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, screenwriter, [1] and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín, and used Guillermo Cain for the screenplay of the cult classic film Vanishing Point (1971).
Cabrera Infante's relations with the Castro regime deteriorated and the literary supplement was shut down by the government in 1961. In 1962, he was sent to Belgium to serve as a cultural attaché to the Cuban embassy in Brussels. [8] [9] It was in Brussels that Cabrera Infante wrote the first manuscript of what would become Tres tristes tigres ...
Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991), anthropologist and poet; Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929–2005), novelist, author of Tres tristes tigres, Cervantes Prize winner; Onelio Jorge Cardoso (1914–1986), screenwriter and short fiction writer; Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980), novelist, author of El reino de este mundo, Cervantes Prize winner
Between 1967 and 1968, a significant burst of literature took place inside and outside of Cuba with works such as Tres tristes tigres by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, El mundo alucinante by Reinaldo Arenas and De donde son los cantantes by Severo Sarduy. The 1970s was a period of digression in the overall development of the Cuban novel.
She is a translator of a range of writers including Silvina Ocampo, Clarice Lispector, Cecilia Vicuña, Jorge Luis Borges, Manuel Puig, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Carlos Fuentes, José Donoso, Julio Cortázar and Guillermo Cabrera Infante. [5] [3] Levine is an honorary member of IAPTI. [6]
Enrico Mario Santí (born 1 July 1950) is a Cuban-American writer, poet, and scholar of Spanish American Literature known for his critical essays and annotated editions of Latin American classics, including works by Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante. A frequent political commentator and art critic, he is also a sculptor ...
José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera, current Minister for Health in Cuba; Juan Almeida Bosque, third ranking member of the Cuban Council of State; Luis Posada Carriles, Cuban paramilitary leader, accused terrorist; Mariela Castro, director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education and daughter of Raúl Castro
The 1971 edition's jury comprised Luis Goytisolo, Juan Rulfo, Joan Ferraté i Soler, and Pere Gimferrer, with Guillermo Cabrera Infante joining in 1972. However, in 1973 the award ceased to be given due to numerous internal factors (dissensions within the publisher) and external factors (problems with censorship). [2]