Aldo Martínez Malo

Among his contributions to culture must be counted the devotion with which he cared for the papers of Dulce María Loynaz, of whom he was the literary executor, and the memory of Rita Montaner, Pedro Junco and the Pinar del Río theater Montaner.

A journalist, literary and film critic, Aldo seemed to embody an tireless Renaissance spirit, due to the multiple fields he cultivated and his incessant promotional work.

He offered lectures in Cuba and Spain. He was the recipient of important awards in his homeland and in Seville and Granada. Several of his articles have appeared in national and foreign journals.

Among his last and most accomplished works are an examination of the novel El vuelo del gato, by his fellow countryman Abel Prieto, and a biographical essay on Pedro Junco, the author of the classic bolero Nosotros.

Around 1971, the writer and journalist began a friendship with Dulce María Loynaz and on one occasion asked her to write her biography. He received a firm no as an answer. After several months of insistence, as one who surrenders out of exhaustion to a willful child, she agreed, on the condition that the biography be written without chronologies, without details. "I do not wish to be measured, but dreamed of, I do not aspire to be observed with a microscope, but to have of me a presence somewhat intangible, somewhat fleeting..."

Active Bibliography:
Complete Works of the Saíz Brothers, 1960.
Rita, the Only One, 1988.
Pedro Junco: As I Am, 1995.
Letters That Did Not Go Astray, 1997.
Like a Hidden Star, 1997.