Mario Muñoz Bustamante

Poet, journalist

He completed his primary and secondary education in La Habana.

In 1900 he began his career as a journalist at the magazine Cuba Libre. Later he became part of the editorial staff of El Mundo, where he worked as a reporter and subsequently as a theater critic. He was an editor of Diario de la Marina and a contributor to El Mundo Ilustrado.

In 1910 he was appointed a full member of the Academia Nacional de Artes y Letras. He served as secretary and later, in 1917, as vice secretary of its Literature Section.

He left unpublished a collection of short stories Venus criolla and a volume of essays on the conquerors and liberators of America, titled Gente de hierro. He used the pseudonyms Héctor Garaffa and Dartal.

Active Bibliography:
Crónicas humanas, 2nd ed. La Habana, 1905.
El pantano (satire), La Habana, 1905.
Ideas y colores (Prologue by Justo de Lara), La Habana, 1907.
El General Mario G. Menocal, tercer presidente de la República de Cuba, La Habana, 1913.
Rimas de gozo, La Habana, 1915.

Emilio Roig de Leuchsenring dedicates pages of the magazine Social to criticism and discussion of the work of Mario Muñoz Bustamante.