List of Cuban writers
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A list of Cuban writers, including novelists, poets, and critics:
- Reinaldo ArenasReinaldo ArenasReinaldo Arenas was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who despite his early sympathy for the 1959 revolution, grew critical of and then rebelled against the Cuban government.- Life :...
(1943-1990), openly gay poet, novelist, and playwright, author of Before Night FallsBefore Night FallsBefore Night Falls is the 1992 autobiography of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, describing his life in Cuba, his time in prison, and his ultimate escape to the United States. It was on The New York Times list of the ten best books of the year 1993...
(Antes que anochezca) - Silvestre de Balboa y Troya de Quesada, (1563-1649), author of Espejo de Paciencia (1608), first known Cuban narrative poem
- Miguel BarnetMiguel BarnetMiguel Barnet is a Cuban writer, novelist and ethnographer. He studied sociology at the University of Havana, under Fernando Ortiz , the pioneer of Cuban anthropology. Fernando Ortíz's studies of Afro-Cuban cultures influenced many of the themes, both literary and scholarly, of Barnet.-Early...
, anthropologist and testimonialist - Antonio Benitez-RojoAntonio Benitez-RojoAntonio Benítez-Rojo was a Cuban novelist, essayist and short-story writer. He was widely regarded as the most significant Cuban author of his generation. His work has been translated into nine languages and collected in more than 50 anthologies.Born in Havana, he lived in Cuba with his mother...
(1931-), author and critic - Pedro Luis BoitelPedro Luis BoitelPedro Luis Boitel was a Cuban poet and dissident who opposed the governments of both Fulgencio Batista and Fidel Castro. In 1961, the regime sentenced him to 10 years in prison....
(1931-1972), poet and dissident - Mariano BrullMariano BrullMariano Brull Caballero was a Cuban poet usually associated with the French Symbolist movement. Two Symbolists who strongly influenced him were Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Valéry...
(1891-1956), postmodern poet - Lydia CabreraLydia CabreraLydia Cabrera was a Cuban anthropologist and poet.Cabrera was born in Havana; She was an authority on Santería and other Afro-Cuban religions. Over her lifetime she published over one hundred books; little if any of her work is available in English...
(1899-1991), anthropologist and poet - Guillermo Cabrera InfanteGuillermo Cabrera InfanteGuillermo Cabrera Infante was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín.A one-time supporter of the Castro regime, Cabrera Infante went into exile to London in 1965...
(1929-2005), novelist, author of Tres tristes tigres. Cervantes Prize winner. - Alejo CarpentierAlejo CarpentierAlejo Carpentier y Valmont was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Carpentier grew up in Havana, Cuba; and despite his European birthplace, Carpentier strongly self-identified...
(1904-1980), novelist, author of El reino de este mundo. Cervantes Prize winner. - Julián del CasalJulián del CasalJosé Julián Herculano del Casal y de la Lastra was a Cuban poet.He took up many of the French poetic styles of the day, and later influenced Rubén Darío and Modernismo. Like Manuel González Prada and José Martí, Casal was an important forebearer of modernistic expression throughout Latin America...
, 19th century poet - Ernesto Juan CastellanosErnesto Juan CastellanosErnesto Juan Castellanos, born in 1963, is a freelance author, translator, journalist, filmmaker and researcher who lives and works in Havana, Cuba. In 1996, he started organizing the Cuban Beatles conventions, which opened doors to the world of writing...
(1963-), English translator, journalist, and author of several books about The BeatlesThe BeatlesThe Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr... - Daniel ChavarriaDaniel ChavarriaDaniel Chavarria is a Uruguayan revolutionary and writer, living in Cuba.- Life :Daniel Chavarria is known to have lived an adventurous life. He has been working as miner in Essen, model in Colonia, guide at the Prado Museum in Madrid, washing dishes in Paris, amongs the other occupations...
, Uruguyan-born author - Daína ChavianoDaína ChavianoDaina Chaviano is a Cuban writer.She is considered one of the three most important female fantasy and science fiction writers in the Spanish language, along with Angélica Gorodischer and Elia Barceló , forming the so-called “feminine trinity of science fiction in Latin America.”In Cuba, she...
, novelist and short-story writer - Enrique CirulesEnrique CirulesEnrique Cirules is a prize-winning Cuban writer and essayist. Among his best known titles are Conversation with the last American , a non-fiction novel about the establishing, rise and fall of an American city in Cuba, The Other War , The Saga of La Gloria City and...
- Jesús DíazJesús DíazJesús Díaz Palacio is a retired Colombian football referee. He is known for having refereed two matches in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. He made several controversial calls against Mexico at the 1986 FIFA World Cup held in Mexico....
(1941-2002), novelist, filmmaker, and intellectual, founder of the influential cultural magazine Encuentro - Norberto FuentesNorberto FuentesNorberto Fuentes is a writer and journalist.He has published Hemingway in Cuba and Ernest Hemingway: Rediscovered, both available in English, as well as Dulces guerreros cubanos, Condenados de Condado , Posición Uno, and El último Santuario...
(1943-), author and journalist - Fina Garcia Marruz (1923-), poet. Queen Sofia Award for Poetry.
- Gertrudis Gómez de AvellanedaGertrudis Gómez de AvellanedaGertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga was a 19th century Cuban writer.-Life:Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga, widely known as la Avellaneda, was born in Santa María de Puerto Príncipe , Cuba...
(1814-1873), novelist, playwright, and poet, author of Sab (1842) and Baltasar (1858) - Nicolás GuillénNicolás GuillénNicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista was a Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer. He is best remembered as the national poet of Cuba.Guillén was born in Camagüey, Cuba...
(1902-1989), Afro-Cuban poet - Pedro Juan GutiérrezPedro Juan GutiérrezPedro Juan Gutiérrez, born in 1950 , is a Cuban novelist.-History:Gutiérrez grew up in Pinar del Río and began to work selling ice cream and newspapers when he was eleven years old. He was a soldier, swimming and kayak instructor, agricultural worker, technician in construction, technical designer,...
(1950-) "dirty realist" novelist, poet, and painter - José María Heredia y HerediaJosé María Heredia y HerediaJosé María Heredia y Heredia was a Cuban poet, born at Santiago de Cuba.He studied at the University of Havana, and was called to the bar in 1823. In the autumn of 1823 he was arrested on a charge of conspiracy against the Spanish government, and was sentenced to banishment for life...
(1803-1839), poet - Carilda Oliver LabraCarilda Oliver LabraCarilda Oliver Labra is a Cuban poet who was born in Matanzas in 1924.She studied law at the University of Havana. She is also known to excel at drawing, painting and sculpting....
(1924-), poet. - José Lezama LimaJosé Lezama LimaJosé Lezama Lima was a Cuban writer and poet who is considered one of the most influential figures in Latin American literature....
(1910-1976), novelist and poet, author of ParadisoParadisoParadiso is the Italian or Latinized version for Heaven or Paradise. It may also refer to:* Paradiso , the third part of Dante's Divine Comedy* Paradisio, a Belgian dance act* Paradiso , a music venue in Amsterdam... - Dulce María LoynazDulce María LoynazDaughter of the famous General Enrique Loynaz del Castillo, a hero of the Cuban Liberation Army and author of Cuban National Anthem lyrics; and sister of poet Enrique Loynaz Muñoz...
(1902-1997), poet. Cervantes Prize winner. - José MartíJosé MartíJosé Julián Martí Pérez was a Cuban national hero and an important figure in Latin American literature. In his short life he was a poet, an essayist, a journalist, a revolutionary philosopher, a translator, a professor, a publisher, and a political theorist. He was also a part of the Cuban...
(1853-1895), poet, journalist, critic, translator, and patriot - Nancy MorejónNancy MorejónNancy Morejón is one of Cuba's major authors and poets. She has gained recognition for work whose themes are centered on women and the Afro-Cuban experience.-Life history:...
(1944-), Afro-Cuban poet - Juan Cristobal Napoles Fajardo (1829-1862?), writer of Siboneyista poetry
- Lisandro OteroLisandro OteroLisandro Otero González was a Cuban novelist and journalist.Born in Havana, Cuba, Otero won the National Prize of Literature in 2002, and was the director of Cuban Academy of Language since October 2004 to his death. He also was a member of The Royal Academy of Spanish Language and Member of the...
(1932-2008), novelist and journalist. - Heberto PadillaHeberto PadillaHeberto Padilla was a Cuban poet. The Padilla Affair was named after him. He was born in Puerta de Golpe, Pinar del Río, Cuba. His first book of poetry, Las rosas audaces , was published in 1948...
(1932-2000), poet - Leonardo Padura FuentesLeonardo Padura FuentesLeonardo Padura Fuentes is a Cuban novelist and journalist. , he is one of Cuba's best known writers internationally. In English and some other languages, he is often referred to by the shorter form of his name, Leonardo Padura...
(1955-), novelist and journalist - Virgilio PiñeraVirgilio PiñeraVirgilio Piñera Llera was a Cuban author, playwright, poet, short-story writer, and essayist.Among his most famous poems are "La isla en peso" , and "La gran puta" . He was a member of the "Origenes" literary group, although he often differed with the conservative views of the group...
(1912-1979), author, playwright, poet, short-story writer and essayist - José Ignacio RiveroJose Ignacio RiveroJosé Ignacio Rivero was a Cuban exile and journalist .Rivero was born in Havana, Cuba. He is the grandson of Don Nicolas Rivero, who in 1832 founded the newspaper El Diario de la Marina, and the son of Pepin Rivero, who took over the newspaper upon the death of Don Nicolas in 1944...
(1920-), exile journalist - Raúl RiveroRaúl RiveroRaúl Rivero Castañeda is a Cuban poet, journalist, and dissident. Rivero was born in 1945 in Morón, Camagüey, in central Cuba.In his youth, he was an ardent follower of Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution. He was among the first generation of journalists to graduate after the triumph of the...
(1945-), dissident poet and journalist - Antonio Orlando Rodríguez (1956-) Novelist, poet, critic, journalist, essayist. Alfaguara Novel Prize 2008
- Severo SarduySevero SarduySevero Sarduy was a Cuban poet, author, playwright, and critic of Cuban literature and art.-Biography:...
(1937-1993), neobaroque poet - Ana María SimoAna María SimoAna María Simo is a New York playwright, essayist and novelist. Born in Cuba, educated in France, and writing in English, she has collaborated with such experimental artists as composer Zeena Parkins, choreographer Stephanie Skura and filmmakers Ela Troyano and Abigail Child...
, playwright, essayist and lesbian activist. - Gabriel de la Concepción Valdez (1809-1844), soldier and poet, author of “Plegaria a Dios”
- Zoé ValdésZoé ValdésZoé Valdés is a Cuban writer.She studied in the Instituto Superior Pedagógico Enrique José Varona, but never graduated. From 1984 to 1988, she worked at the Delegación de Cuba in UNESCO in Paris, and in the Oficina Cultural de la Misión de Cuba in Paris. From 1990 to 1995, she was an editor of the...
(1959-), novelist - Cirilo VillaverdeCirilo VillaverdeCirilo Villaverde was a Cuban poet, novelist, journalist and freedom fighter....
, novelist, author of Cecilia ValdésCecilia ValdésCecilia Valdés is both a novel by the Cuban Cirilo Villaverde , and a zarzuela based on the novel. It is a work of importance for its quality, and its revelation of the interaction of classes and races in Cuba.- The novel :...
(1882) - Cintio VitierCintio VitierCintio Vitier was a Cuban poet, essayist, and novelist. Upon winning the Juan Rulfo Prize, the award jury called him "one of the most important writers of his generation".-Early life:...
(1921-2009), poet, essayist and novelist. - Héctor ZumbadoHéctor ZumbadoHéctor Zumbado Argueta , also known as H. Zumbado is a Cuban writer, journalist, critic, humorist, and essayist. He is known for his keen and sharp critiques, which have a Cuban manner, style and humor. In his words, "humor is a weapon, because it criticizes and exposes at the same time, and does...
, writer, journalist, humorist, and critic
See also
- Cuban literature
- List of Cuban Americans
- List of Latin American writers