Ramón Rubiera Pastrana

Born in Los Palos, municipality of Nueva Paz, province of La Habana, a poet and journalist, narrator, art critic and publicist who served as Editor-in-Chief of the local magazines "Alborada" and "Bohemia".

He was almost entirely self-taught, having completed only some primary education, but he became a journalist and learned French perfectly, which later allowed him to obtain a diploma from the famous Berlitz language school, and a professorship for teaching that language at the Escuela Normal para Maestros de La Habana.

He began working at Bohemia magazine in 1917. He was one of the participants in the literary gatherings at Café Martí in the early twenties, together with Juan Marinello, Andrés Nuñez Olano, José Z. Tallet, and others. He contributed to Revista de Avance.

Between 1929 and 1960 he held the position of Editor-in-Chief of Bohemia. He was a full professor of French at the Escuela Normal para Maestros de La Habana (1930-1960).

He stopped writing for forty years. Between 1965 and 1968 he wrote three books that remain unpublished: Sedimento del tiempo, Muestrario versicolor and Arbitraria cosecha.

He contributed to Revista de Avance.

The personality of poet Ramón Rubiera was a mystery to all who knew him, even to his son, author of only one book, Los astros ilusorios (1925), with a print run of barely 200 copies, which never even reached a bookstore.

His name appears in El panorama histórico de la literatura cubana, by Max Enríquez Ureña, among the group of poets that emerged in the decade from 1920 to 1930, in which the influence of French symbolism is evident, as a modernist survival.