Authors
Miguel
BARNET
La Habana, 1940
Genre: Poetry , Narrative , Children`s , Essays
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.
AWARDS/
1986 Literary Critics Award
1994 National Literature Prize
1995 Order Felix Varela
1996 Order Juan Marinello
2008 Distinction Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra conferred by the Federation of Spanish Societies of Cuba
2019 Special Prize for Cultural Journalism for the work of life
2020 Doctor Honoris Causa Award from the University of the Arts
Rachel`s song, more than the intimate tale of an artist from the Alhambra theater, is the eloquent testimony of a turbulent era in the history of Cuba. The protagonist tells us, with the singular grace of the Cuban woman, her intense love and professional life. It is a story, according to Barnet, “just as she told me and as I told her later”.