Born: 22-Apr-1929
Birthplace: Gibara, Cuba
Died: 21-Feb-2005
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Cremated

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist, Critic

Nationality: Cuba
Executive summary: Tres Tristes Tigres

Mother: (d. 1965)
Brother: (documentary filmmaker)
Wife: (m. 1953, div. 1961, 2 daughters)
Wife: Miriam Gómez (m. 1961)

    Exiled from Cuba, self-imposed, 1965
    Cervantes Prize 1997
    Risk Factors: Diabetes

Author of books:
Así en la paz como en la guerra (1960, novel)
A Twentieth Century Job (1963, film criticism, as G. Cain)
Vista del amanecer en el trópico (1964, novel, trans. A View of Dawn in the Tropics)
Tres Tristes Tigres (1967, novel, trans. Three Trapped Tigers)
Exorcismos de estio (1976, novel)
La Habana para un Infante Difunto (1979, memoirs, trans. Infante's Inferno)
Holy Smoke (1985, nonfiction, trans. into Spanish as Puro Humo)
Cine o sardina (1997, essays)
Vidas para leerlas (1998, essays)
Mea Cuba (1991, essays, trans. Cuba is Pissing)

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