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Pablo Armando
FERNÁNDEZ

Puerto Padre, Las Tunas, 1929 - Puerto Padre, Las Tunas, 2021

Genre: Poetry , Narrative , Essays , Translations

Poet, narrator, essayist, playwright and translator. National Prize of Literature in 1996. Member of the Cuban Academy of Language and corresponding to the Royal Academy of Language. In his poetic work stand out: All the poetry (1961), Book of the heroes (1964), Learning to die (1983), The dream, the reason (1988), Of stones and words (1999), The small notebook of Manila Hartman (2000), With cymbals of jubilation (2002), Scales of ascent (2002) and After the earth without evil (2006). His narrative work includes the novels: Children say goodbye (1968/2001), The belly of the fish (1989/1990/1991), Another hit of dices (1993); and the storybook: The talisman and other evocations (1994/2002). He has also published the essays book: Of memories and longings (1998). In 1968 he won the Casa de las Américas award. On two occasions he received the prize of the Crítica Literaria. Part of his work has been published by prestigious international publishing houses, as well as translated into English, French, Italian, Russian and Portuguese.

In his essay Review of Cuban poetry, Heberto Padilla wrote: “Although much poetic constancy in our literary generations (much more than in the novel or the theater) has failed to produce our great poet, no doubt that this passion for continuity in creative work has given us great Cuban poems. This book is not the ambitious summary that the title could suppose: it is the tastes, the various influences, (the Bible, St. John Perse, TS Eliot, Quevedo, Manrique, Vallejo, Gabriela Mistral and other artists who, apparently irreconcilable, have formed the definitive voice of this poet); they are also the different worlds of the author since the appearance of his first book. Here are the torn testimonial poems; religious faith, political and social concern, contemplation of nature, love, family, fatigue and the struggle of our time and the often painful chronicles of his years of economic exile in the United States where he lived 15 years.”

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