Literature

Doralina de la Caridad Alonso Pérez

Dora Alonso

===BODY=== Notable children's literature writer for whom she obtained the Casa de las Américas Award in Children's Literature, in 1988 she receives the National Prize for Literature

Yanitsia Canetti

Graduate in Journalism from the Universidad de la Habana, with a Master's degree in Linguistics and a Doctorate in Latin American Literature

Luisa Pérez Montes de Oca

Luisa Pérez de Zambrano, «la más insigne elegíaca de nuestras líricas»

===BODY=== Cuban writer of the nineteenth century, one of the most distinguished representations of romanticism in Cuban literature

Onelio Jorge Cardoso

Cuentero mayor

===BODY=== He was born in Calabazar de Sagua, a small town in the center of the Island, belonging to the former province of Las Villas, on May 11, 1914

Juan Francisco Calcagno Monzón

Francisco Calcagno

===BODY=== Pedagogue, journalist, translator, anthologist, lecturer, biographer, essayist, poet and, above all, prolific Cuban novelist

Joaquín Lorenzo Luaces

===BODY=== Poet and playwright

Lisandro Otero

===BODY=== Novelist, diplomat, and journalist

Emilio Bacardí Moreau

Born in Santiago de Cuba, he was the son of Facundo Bacardí y Massó, a merchant of Catalan origin who would create the important spirits company Ron Bacardí —of which Emilio and his brothers were ...

Lorenzo García Vega

Cult author and creator of one of the most unclassifiable works in Cuban literature, his influence reaches the youngest writers of the Island

María Villar Buceta

Born in Pedro Betancourt, Matanzas, María Villar Buceta managed at age 16 to astonish critics when, from her native corner, formerly called Corral Falso, she published her first poems and journalistic ...

Roberto Fernández Retamar

David

Important Cuban poet, essayist and cultural promoter

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 ...

Adolfo Martí Fuentes

He was a professor at the University of La Habana and National Director of Literature of the former National Council of Culture

Juan Francisco Sariol

He was born in San Luis and when he was seven years old his family moved to Santiago de Cuba, where he studied at a public school and at the private school San Severino, in exchange for different services ...

Raúl Morales García

Raúl Morales del Cascorro

Cuban writer with an extensive body of work (Trees Without Roots, A Dove for Graciela, The Best Fruit)

Manuel Navarro Luna

Cuban poet and journalist, representative of the avant-garde movement of the 1930s

Nicolás Heredia

Cesar de Hinolia, Mostaza, El emigrado, Rodrigo Ruiz, El Caballero Bayardo, Luis Villarena, Marabut, Porfirio, Nemo, Bibelot, N.H.

Born in Baní, Santo Domingo

José Ramón Betancourt Betancourt

El estudiante, Las dos banderas

Cuban writer who stood out for his work in prose

Gustavo Pérez Firmat

===BODY=== He was born in Cuba and emigrated to the United States to the city of Miami in 1960, when he was only 11 years old

Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés

Plácido

===BODY=== Cuban poet, part of the poetic triad par excellence of the first Cuban romanticism, alongside José María Heredia and José Jacinto Milanés

Juan Cristóbal Nápoles Fajardo

Cucalambé, Cookcalambe,

A great figure of Cuban Siboney and Creole poetry; the most important cultivator of the décima in the nineteenth century of the Island

Eliseo de Jesús de Diego Fernánez Cuervo

Eliseo Diego

He was born on Compostela Street No

Bonifacio Byrne Puñales

===BODY=== Cuban poet, born in Matanzas

Carilda Oliver Labra

===BODY=== Matanzas-born poet who won the National Prize for Literature In 1940 she graduates with a degree in Letters and Sciences from the Institute of Secondary Education in Matanzas

Luis Rogelio Rodríguez Noguera

Wichy, El Rojo, Wichy el Rojo

Wichy was born in El Vedado

Nieves Xenes

===BODY=== Cuban romantic and modernist poetess

Nicolás Cristobal Guillén Batista

Nicolás Guillén

Cuban writer, considered by his work to be the National Poet

Juan Antonio Alfonso Roque

===BODY=== He is head of the cultural section of the Provincial Newspaper 5 de Septiembre, and also serves as an adjunct professor in the Social Communication program at the University of Cienfuegos

Ada Elba Pérez Rodríguez

Guajirita deslumbrada

She was born in Jarahueca, province of Sancti Spíritus

Enrique Serpa Filis

===BODY=== Outstanding Cuban narrator, poet, and journalist

Excilia Saldaña Molina

===BODY=== Poet, teacher, translator, and writer of children's literature, Cuban

Mercedes Serafina Núñez de Villavicencio Ortiz

Serafina Núñez

Serafina Núñez was and will be a woman swept by the wind, which is useful and dangerous at once, especially for whoever set out to delve into more than nine decades of her life where fire and passion, ...

José Jacinto Milanés Fuentes

Cuban poet and playwright; one of the essential voices of the first Cuban poetic romanticism in the nineteenth century, alongside José María Heredia and Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés, Plácido

Jorge Luis Arzola

Cuban writer born in Jatibonico, Sancti Spíritus (1966)

Mercedes Matamoros del Valle

Ofelia, La poetisa del dolor, La alondra ciega

Distinguished Cuban writer and poetess

Juan Clemente Zenea Fornaris

Adolfo de la Azucena, Espejo del corazón, Ego quoque,***, Un amigo de la juventud, Una habanera

Cuban writer recognized for having exerted great influence on Cuban literature by reviving Romanticism, marking a new line in Hispanic American poetry

Jesús Orta Ruiz

El Indio Naborí, Jesús Ribona, Juan Criollo, Martín de la Hoz.

Cuban poet, journalist, and literary researcher

Sergio Ángel Chaple Mesa

Cuban poet native of La Habana

Julián del Casal de la Lastra

Julián del Casal y de la Lastra was a Cuban poet and writer and one of the greatest exponents of modernism in Latin America He was born in La Habana, son of Julián del Casal y Ugareda, a native of Vizcaya, ...

Cirilo Villaverde de la Paz

El ambulante del Oeste, Un contemporáneo, Simón Judas de la Paz, Sansueñas

One of the most important Cuban novelists of the nineteenth century; journalist, teacher, and translator

Enrique del Risco Arrocha

Bachelor's degree in History, Universidad de La Habana, 1990 and Ph

Andrés Núñez Olano

Cuban journalist and poet

José Zacarías Tallet

José Zacarías Tallet, intimate friend and brother-in-law of Rubén Martínez Villena

Julio Girona Fernández

Renowned Cuban painter, sculptor, caricaturist, draftsman and engraver

Noel Navarro

Journalist, narrator of novels and short stories, and essay writer

Ramón Meza

Narrator, columnist and essayist