Sigfredo Ariel Pérez-Guedes

Writer from Villa Clara. He advised the film Buena Vista Social Club, has produced albums of traditional and popular Cuban music. He holds the Distinction for National Culture and the Commemorative Medal for the Founding of the City of Santa Clara.

For the past twenty years he has worked in Cuban radio and television, writing and directing cultural programs. He advised the film Buena Vista Social Club (1998) by German filmmaker Wim Wenders. He has produced albums of traditional and popular Cuban music for numerous international record companies. He studied at the National Institute of Art.

He has worked at the printing press of the Ministry of Culture and at various radio and television stations in Cuba.

He has given talks and lectures about Cuban literature and popular culture in Cuba and Spain. He has published articles, essays, and interviews on these topics in specialized magazines in several countries. His poems have been translated into English, German, Russian, Italian, and French. He appears in numerous collections and anthologies of contemporary Cuban poetry.

He won the David Prize for Poetry in 1986 with Algunos pocos conocidos. He has received on two occasions the National Prize for Cuban Poetry "Julián del Casal" (1997-2004) and the National Critics Prize (2002-2006).

He received on six occasions the Cubadisco award for specialized notes. For more than twenty years he wrote, produced, and directed radio programs. He has written scripts for dramatized television segments (he created the television program "La hora de las brujas" -1990-1994-) and scripts for numerous musical productions.

Screenwriter of the feature film "Miradas," by Enrique Álvarez (2000), Screenplay Award at the Havana New Latin American Cinema Festival. He directed the Cuban Music Magazine of the Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (2007-2008). His drawings and designs have illustrated books and magazines, record covers, films, and posters.

Publications
Algunos pocos conocidos (Ediciones Unión, 1987) David Prize, 1986
El enorme verano (Editora Abril, 1995) Pinos Nuevos Prize
El cielo imaginario (Ediciones Vigía, Matanzas, 1996)
Las primeras itálicas (Miguel Gómez Editores, Málaga, Spain, 1997)
Hotel Central (Ediciones Unión, 1998) UNEAC Prize "Julián del Casal" for Poetry 1997
Los peces y La vida tropical (Editorial Letras Cubanas, 2000)
Manos de obra (Editorial Letras Cubanas, 2002) National Prize for Poetry "Nicolás Guillén", 2002
Born in Santa Clara (Ediciones Unión, 2006 and 2007) UNEAC Prize for Poetry "Julián del Casal" 2005 and National Critics Prize 2006
Cielo imaginario (2008)
Todos los hierros (Editorial Matanzas), 2017

Awards Received
El Caimán Barbudo Poetry Prize (1985 and 1988)
La Gaceta de Cuba Poetry Prize (1995)
Abril Prize (1990)
International ULCRA Prize for Latin American Audiovisual (Mexico City, 1990)
Prize for Best Unpublished Screenplay at the XVIII Havana Film Festival of 1997
National Prize for Poetry Nicolás Guillén (2002)
Letras Cubanas

Cubadisco Prize, for discographic notes
National Prize for Cuban Poetry "Julián del Casal" (1997 and 2005)
National Critics Prize (2002 and 2006)
UNEAC Prize for Poetry (1998 and 2005)
David Prize
Pinos Nuevos Prize
National Prize for Poetry José Jacinto Milanés of the UNEAC (2003)
Milanés Prize for Poetry (2016)

Recognitions
Commemorative Medal for the Founding of the City of Santa Clara (1999)
Distinction for National Culture (1997)