Author Biography

Poet, narrator, screenwriter and ethnologist. National Prize of Literature in 1994. Founder of the UNEAC and the Fernando Ortiz Foundation. He is one of the most published living Cuban writers inside and outside of Cuba. His bibliography, among others, exhibits the poetry books: The fine stone and the peacock (1963/2013), The sacred family (1967), Night letter (1982), Map of the time (1989), With cat feet (1993), Notebook of Paris (2003), Dress of ghost and other poems (2006), Unfinished itinerary (2007), Saved from the circle of fire (2010), Hourglass (2011); the novels testimony: Biography of a cimarron (1966/2001/2012), Rachel’s song (2001/2013), Galician (1980/1988/2007), The real life (1984/1986/2003); the books of essays and chronics: Cuban Autographs (1990) New Cuban autographs (2009), The living fountain (1998/2011) and Afro- Cuban Cults (1995). He has won numerous national and international awards and distinctions.