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Nicolás
GUILLÉN BATISTA
Camagüey, 1902 - Camagüey, 1989
Genre: Classics , Poetry
National Poet of Cuba. National Prize of Literature in 1983. He was among the founders of the Union of Cuban Writers and Artist (UNEAC), been the first president of that organization. Author of a great poetic work in which stand out the books: Son motifs (1930/1980), Sóngorocosongo (1931/1981), I have (1964), The cogwheel (1972), Elegy to Jesús Menéndez (1982) and Poetic work (2 volumes) (1995). He collected his essays, articles and chronicles in Fast prose (1987/2002) and his memoirs in Flipped pages (1982). Numerous editors have published his work, among them, we can mention: Planeta (Mexico), ERREPAR (Argentina), Didier et Delagrave (France), Dale Douglas (Australia) and ORKANA (Norway).
About his Poetic work Nicolás Guillén said: «I would advise an anthology of my poems by suggesting those of the most perfect ending, as if my trade had started then. Or the social ambition poems, and leave aside those of love, those of satire, those of more intimate and painful expression. And those of the so called black poetry? By consulting the case to myself I judged that I should gather everything with only one standard, the quality achieved or followed closely».
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