Cuba

Reinaldo Arenas
Born: 16 JUL 1943 -- Holguin, Cuba
Died: 07 DEC 1990 -- New York
Type: Prose writer, dramatist
Achievements:
  1. French Prize for the Best Foreign Novel (1969)
  2. Cintas Award (US, 1982)
  3. Guggenheim Grant (1983)

Emilio Ballagas
Born: 11 NOV 1908 -- Camagüey, Cuba
Died: 11 SEP 1954 -- Havana
Type: Poet
Achievements:
  1. National Prize for Poetry (1951)

Miguel Barnet
Born: 28 JAN 1940 -- Havana
Died: ?? ??? ????
Type: Ethnographer, poet, prose writer
Achievements:
  1. Guggenheim Award (?)
  2. Cuban Premio de la Crítica (1984, 1988)
  3. National Prize for Literature (1994)
  4. Holds the Alejo Carpentier Medal

Lydia Cabrera
Born: 20 MAY 1900 -- Havana
Died: 18 SEP 1991 -- Miami
Type: Writer, ethnographer
Achievements:

Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Born: 22 AP 1929 -- Gibara, Cuba
Died: ?? ??? ????
Type: Prose writer
Achievements:
  1. Biblioteca Breve Prize (Spain, 1964)
  2. Guggenheim Fellowship (1970)
  3. Foreign Book Prize (France, 1971)

Alejo Carpenter
Born: 26 DEC 1904 -- Havana
Died: 24 APR 1980 -- Paris, France
Type: Prose writer, musicologist, cultural historian
Achievements:
  1. Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1978)
  2. Medici Prize (1979)

Miguelde Carrión
Born: 09 APR 1875 -- Havana
Died: ?? ??? 1929
Type: Prose writer, physician
Achievements:
  1. Founded a teachers' journal, Cuba Pedogógica (1903)
  2. Established the first Cancer Research Laboratory in Cuba (1908)
  3. Founding member of the National Academy of Arts and Letters (?)

Julián del Casal
Born: 07 NOV 1863 -- Havana
Died: ?? ??? 1893
Type: Poet
Achievements:

Eliseo Diego
Born: 02 JUL 1920 -- Havana
Died: ?? ??? 1994
Type: Poet, prose writer, literary translator
Achievements:
  1. Maxim Gorky International Prize (1979)
  2. National Prize for Literature (1986)
  3. Juan Rulfo Prize (1993)

Fina García Marruz
Born: 28 APR 1923 -- Havana, Cuba
Died: ?? ??? ????
Type: Poet
Achievements:
  1. Cuban Premio de la Critica (1990)
  2. Premio Nacional (1990)

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
Born: 23 MAR 1814 -- Puerto Prícipe, Camagüey, Cuba
Died: 01 FEB 1873 -- Madrid, Spain
Type: Prose writer, poet, dramatist
Achievements:

Nicolás Guillén
Born: 10 JUL 1902 -- Camagüey, Cuba
Died: 16 JUL 1989 -- Havana
Type: Poet
Achievements:
  1. International Lenin Peace Prize (1954)
  2. Viareggio Prize (Italy, 1972)
  3. National Prize for Literature (Cuba, 1983)
  4. Maurice Bishop Prize (1989)

José Lezama Lima
Born: 19 DEC 1910 (?) -- Havana
Died: 09 AUG 1976
Type: Poet, prose writer
Achievements:

Carlos Loveira
Born: 21 MAR 1882 -- El Santo, Santa Clara, Cuba
Died: 26 NOV 1928
Type: Prose writer
Achievements:
  1. Created Yucatán's Department of Labor (1913)
  2. Member of the Academy of Philosophy and Art (1926)

Dulce María Loynaz
Born: 10 DEC 1902 -- Havana
Died: ?? ??? ????
Type: Poet, prose writer, literary critic
Achievements:
  1. Member of Academy of Language (Cuba, 1959)
  2. Corresponding member of the Academy of Spanish Languages (1968)
  3. Emeritus member of the Cuban Union of Artists and Writers (?)
  4. Cross of Alfonso X (Spain, 1947)
  5. National Prize for Literature (Cuba, 1987)
  6. Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1992)

José Martí
Born: 28 JAN 1853 -- Havana
Died: 19 MAY 1895 -- Dos Rios
Type: Poet, essayist, political thinker
Achievements:

Nancy Morejón
Born: 07 AUG 1944 -- Havana
Died: ?? ??? ????
Type: Poet, literary critic, translator
Achievements:
  1. Premio de la Crítica (1986)

Fernando Ortiz
Born: 16 JUL 1881 -- Havana
Died: ?? ??? 1969
Type: Criminalogist, ethographer, anthropologist
Achievements:
  1. Founded the Society for African-Cuban Studies (1937)

Virgilio Piñera
Born: 04 AUG 1912 (or 1910) -- Cárdenas, Matanzas, Cuba
Died: 18 OCT 1979 -- Havana
Type: Dramatist, prose writer, poet
Achievements:
  1. Casa de las Américas Prize for Theatre (1968)

Severo Sarduy
Born: 25 FEB 1937 -- Camagüey, Cuba
Died: ?? ??? 1993 -- Paris, France
Type: Prose writer, poet
Achievements:
  1. Director of the Latin American collection at Editions du Seuil Publishing House (Paris, 1969-1990)
  2. Director of the Latin American division of Gallimard Publishing Company (1990-1993)
  3. Medicis International Award (1972)
  4. Paul Gilson and Italia Awards for Radio and Television (1983)

José Triana
Born: 04 JAN 1931 -- Camagüey, Cuba
Died: ?? ??? ????
Type: Dramatist, poet
Achievements:
  1. Casa de las Américas Prize (1965)
  2. Gallo del La Habana (1966)

Cirilo Villaverde
Born: 28 OCT 1812 -- Vuelta Abajo, Pinar del Rio, Cuba
Died: 20 OCT 1894 -- New York City
Type: Prose writer
Achievements:
  1. Founded and editied magazines in New York and New Orleans (????)
  2. Helped found the magazine La Havana (????)