Alberto Damián Luberta Noy

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Director and writer of radio programs. He wrote the humorous-musical program Alegrías de Sobremesa, from Radio Progreso, for more than forty years. National Radio Prize. National Humor Prize.

He was born in the municipality of Marianao, La Habana. From a very young age he began working as a scriptwriter copyist at the powerful radio station CMQ, headquartered at Monte and Prado, in La Habana.

Close contact with the work of the best radio writers of the era awakened the young man's interest in becoming a writer. In the 1950s of the twentieth century, he wrote his first scripts for dramatized programs; and later he specialized in humorous programs.

His greatest legacy to national broadcasting is inscribed in the program Alegrías de Sobremesa, broadcast by the radio station Radio Progreso, the Wave of Joy, from April 15, 1965 to the present.

The program, which maintains high radio audience levels, emerged under the direction of Antonio (Ñico) Hernández and featured numerous first-rate actors who placed it at the height of popularity, among whom stand out Idalberto Delgado, Darío Proenza, Agustín Campos, José Antonio Rivero, Carlos Moctezuma, Enrique Arredondo, Eloísa Álvarez Guedes, Erdwin Fernández, Dulce Velasco, Miriam Isabel, Pipo de Armas, Juan Carlos Romero, Antonio (Ñico) Hernández, Marta Jiménez Oropesa, Martha Velasco, Aurora Basnuevo, Mario Limonta and Maggie Castro. Traditionally, the program promotes musical groups and solo artists from throughout the country, who perform live in the studio, with audience presence, although occasionally recorded music is used. From the beginning, the hosting bears the stamp of the powerful voice and unmistakable timbre of Eduardo Rosillo, National Radio Prize. The center of the program is constituted by the comic sketch that criticizes and satirizes Cuban social reality, reflected in the scripts signed by Luberta for more than forty years.

Alegrías de Sobremesa airs Monday through Sunday, from 7:50 to 8:25 pm and is rebroadcast the following day, from 12:00 p.m. to 12:35 p.m.

Currently the scripts are signed by young writer Ahmed Otero Prado, who was trained by Luberta to replace him.

Alberto Luberta received the National Humor Prize (2001), together with the unforgettable Enrique Núñez Rodríguez, who used to call him "the daily martyr of radio," for the record of having written a humorous dramatized program of daily frequency for so long.

At Radio Progreso he worked as a screenwriter and director of various programs, until his retirement in 2007, the year he completed sixty years of artistic life.

He has also ventured into television as an adapter of works and screenwriter, although to a lesser extent than in radio.

On March 11, 1951, the CMQ circuit, owned by the Mestres, began providing regular services of its television programming through Channel 6. At that time, Luberta was an employee of the monopoly so he was not allowed to write for it; thus he had to sign with a pseudonym several scripts he created for Gran Hotel, a program where intrigues, thefts and murders occurring in a hotel were dramatized.

From then on he wrote other scripts for programs that had no fixed author and for a time he signed as Fabio Henríquez; he collaborated on a program that lasted a short time on the air, titled El carrousel de las sorpresas.

He participated in the strike of April 9, 1958, as he belonged to the Movement 26 of July; as a consequence of this action he had to go into exile. He returned on January 2, 1959, and as soon as he returned to work he joined the struggle led by the new government against the administrations of the major mass media outlets.
As a consequence of the transformations that occurred in the political order, many radio and television writers abandoned the country, causing an imbalance in programming. Those who stayed had to assume various roles within the production process.

At that moment, Luberta wrote novels and other types of programs for television, almost always linked to drama, far removed from humor. He wrote a customs program that he also directed artistically and titled Peñalver 29. In this program Eloísa Álvarez Guedes and Manolín Álvarez (Pirolo) worked as protagonists, and Violeta Vergara (Pelusa), Reynaldo Miravalles and Inocente Iznaga (El Jilguero de Cienfuegos). The program ended abruptly due to Manolín's death.

Other television programs he wrote for were Secundino Tracy, el detective gallego, with Idalberto Delgado and Mario Galí in the leading roles and, later, De repente en televisión hosted by Rosita Fornés. In this program a part of the cast of Alegrías de Sobremesa intervened, especially Wilfredo Fernández.

The last continuous program he wrote for television was En familia (2002), hosted and directed by Alfredo Rodríguez and broadcast on Saturdays in prime time at 8:30 pm on Cubavisión.

He joined the Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC) in 1977. Later he became a member of the National Council of this organization.

In 2002, he was awarded the National Radio Prize for his life's work. He has received other important recognitions including the National Humor Prize (2001), the Distinction for National Culture, the Alejo Carpentier Medal (1992), the Diploma for Artistic Merit conferred by the Higher Institute of Art (ISA), the Replica of the Machete of Generalísimo Máximo Gómez, awarded by the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), and the Caracol of Honor for his life's work (2007) granted by the Association of Cinema, Radio and Television of UNEAC.

Source: EnCaribe