The Cuban writer Jorge Luis Camacho presented the trilogy 'Sinfonía cubana'

May 25, 2021

The Cuban writer Jorge Luis Camacho has just presented his trilogy titled 'Sinfonía cubana', a family saga in three novels that spans from the beginning of the revolution to the arrival of a probable democracy.

Jorge Luis Camacho was born in the city of Cárdenas, Matanzas province, Cuba, in 1956. He emigrated to Paris in 1981, where he has lived since then.

'Desear en cubano', his first novel, published in France by "Actes-Sud" and translated into several languages, opened the doors of the literary world for him. The trilogy 'Sinfonía Cubana' is his third novel, but it is the first to be published in Spanish.

In Cuba he studied music and percussion, before entering the Higher Institute of Art in Havana, where he studied acting. He only studied through the fourth year of the program. He worked as an actor in Cuban television.

In Paris he studied at the prestigious Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique. He worked as an actor in France, in theater, film and television, with well-known directors and actors such as Jean Paul Belmondo, Victoria Abril, Nicole Garcia, Robert Hossein, Robert Enrico and others.

He has been a screenwriter for French television for more than twenty years. He was the founder of the first association of French screenwriters whose native language was not French.

He has written two feature films for cinema and directed fiction shorts and documentaries. His film Habana Eva, directed by Fina Torres, won numerous awards in different fields and countries, among them the Rita Award for Best Feature Film at the LALIF in Los Angeles.

In the field of music he has been a singer, musician and songwriter. And he has had the privilege of working with personalities such as Alexandre Desplat (winner of two Oscars for his music), Patato Valdés, Papo Pepín, Oriente López, William Cepeda, Jimmy Bosch, Manuel Anoyvega, Victor Paz, etc. Lead singer of numerous latin-jazz, jazz and salsa groups and orchestras, he has performed on prestigious foreign and French stages, such as Le New Morning in Paris or the Cannes International Film Festival.