Norberto 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 (which received the Casa de las Américas Prize

Casa de las Américas Prize

The Casa de las Américas Prize is a Cuban cultural award given by the Casa de las Américas, an organization founded in April 1959. It is one of Latin America’s oldest and most prestigious literary awards....

 in 1968), Posición Uno, and El último Santuario. His work has been praised by today’s most distinguished intellectuals, such as Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy , the Cosmicomics collection of short stories , and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler .Lionised in Britain and the United States,...

, William Kennedy, Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

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 and Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. He is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in...

. The Autobiography of Fidel Castro has been sold to major Europe

Europe

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an publishing houses.

Fuentes was a close friend of Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008. He also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from the party's foundation in 1961 until 2011...

 and thus had privileged knowledge of the Cuban secret service during some of the most difficult years of the Cuban Revolution

Cuban Revolution

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. After spending many years alongside Castro, Fuentes tried to escape the island, was detained, and eventually released with the assistance of Gabriel García Márquez and William Kennedy. He currently lives in the United States

United States

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Norberto Fuentes has provided information on drug, money laundering, and robberies perpetrated by Cuban agents or coordinated by Cuba.

External links

• Norberto Fuentes Papers at the Cuban Heritage Collection at The University of Miami
• The Autobiography of Fidel Castro by Norberto Fuentes by The Guardian
  The Guardian
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