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A list of Cuban writers, including novelists, poets, and critics: Cuban authors and writers have influenced and shaped the history of the world. Throughout the years many of their contributions have caused radical shifts: from social movements to global perspectives in the Americas and beyond.
Cuban literature is one of the most prolific, relevant and influential literatures in Latin America and all the Spanish-speaking world, with renowned writers including José Martí, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, José María Heredia, Nicolás Guillén (the National Poet of Cuba), José Lezama Lima, Alejo Carpentier (nominee for the Nobel ...
A Century of Cuban Writers in Florida: Selected Prose and Poetry. Sarasota: Pineapple Press. ISBN 978-1-56164-104-8. (Anthology; includes writer biographies) Virgil Suárez; Delia Poey, eds. (1996). Little Havana Blues: a Cuban-American Literature Anthology. Houston: Arte Público Press. ISBN 978-1-61192-207-3. (Anthology; includes writer ...
Reinaldo Arenas (July 16, 1943 – December 7, 1990) [1] was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who is known as a vocal critic of Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution, and the Cuban government. His memoir of the Cuban dissident movement and of being a political prisoner , Before Night Falls , was dictated after his escape to the United States ...
Ginny Aiken (born 1955), Cuban-American novelist writing in English; Magaly Alabau (born 1945), Cuban-American poet, theatre director, actress, writes in Spanish; Dora Alonso (1910–2001), novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, children's writer; María Argelia Vizcaíno (born 1955), Cuban-American historian, journalist, non-fiction ...
Manuel Urrutia Lleó, provisional Cuban President January to July 1959; Miguel Mariano Gómez, President of Cuba for seven months in 1936; Paul Lafargue, Cuban-born French Communist and son-in-law to Karl Marx; Pedro Pablo Cazañas, Cuban judge and politician; Rafael Diaz-Balart, Cuban politician and majority leader during presidency of Batista
Rosa Lowinger, author of Tropicana Nights: the Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub; Ana Menéndez, author (books In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd and Loving Che) Orlando Ricardo Menes, poet, short story writer, translator, anthologist; Anaïs Nin, author [95] Achy Obejas, novelist; Ricardo Pau-Llosa, poet, art critic [96]
Classification: People: By occupation: People in arts occupations: Writers: By nationality: Cuban Also: Cuba : People : By occupation : Writers See also: List of Spanish-language authors (Cuba section)