20th-century Cuban poets

The list 20th-century Cuban poets includes Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Reinaldo Arenas, Gilda Antonia Guillen, Daína Chaviano and José Lezama Lima. The list consists of 72 members.

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1.

Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

Argentinean, Activist

Overview: Ernesto "Che" Guevara (14 June, 1928 – 9 October, 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution ...

Date of birth: 14 June 1928

Date of death: 9 October 1967

Age: 39 (age at death)

Nationality: Argentinean

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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20th-century Argentine essayists 26T

Anti-imperialists 47T

People with multiple citizenship 109T
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Reinaldo Arenas

Cuban poet/novelist/playwright

Date of birth: 16 August 1944

Age: 80

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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American male writers who committed suicide 108T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T

20th-century male writers 5,043T
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Reynaldo Arenas

Cuban writer

Overview: Reinaldo Arenas (July 16, 1943 – December 7, 1990) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright known as an early sympathizer, and later critic of Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution, and a rebel of the ...

Date of birth: 16 July 1943

Date of death: 7 December 1990

Age: 47 (age at death)

Nationality: Cuban

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Cuban male novelists 34T

20th-century Cuban novelists 29T

Drug-related deaths in New York City 71T
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Gilda Antonia Guillen

Cuban writer

Overview: Gilda Antonia Guillén (1959–2006) was a Cuban writer and poet.

Date of birth: 1959

Date of death: 2006

Age: 46 (age at death)

Nationality: Cuban

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Female

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20th-century Cuban women writers 37T

Cuban women poets 42T

Cuban anarchists 5T
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Virgilio Piñera

Cuban writer

Overview: Virgilio Piñera Llera (Cárdenas, Cuba, August 4, 1912 – Havana, October 18, 1979) was a Cuban author, playwright, poet, short story writer, and essayist.

Date of birth: 4 August 1912

Date of death: 18 October 1979

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: Cuban

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Cuban fantasy writers 3T

20th-century male writers 5,043T

Cuban male poets 59T
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Daína Chaviano

Cuban-American writer

Overview: Daína Chaviano (born in Havana, Cuba, in 1957) is a Cuban-American writer of French and Asturian descent living in the United States since 1991.

Date of birth: 1960

Age: 64

Nationality: Cuban

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Female

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Cuban fantasy writers 3T

21st-century Cuban novelists 15T

20th-century Cuban novelists 29T
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José Lezama Lima

Cuban writer, poet

Overview: José Lezama Lima (December 19, 1910 – August 9, 1976) was a Cuban writer and poet who is considered one of the most influential figures in Latin American literature.

Date of birth: 19 December 1910

Date of death: 9 August 1976

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: Cuban

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

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Cuban male novelists 34T

20th-century Cuban novelists 29T

20th-century male writers 5,043T
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Lydia Cabrera

Afro-Cuban poet

Overview: Lydia Cabrera (May 20, 1899, in Havana, Cuba – September 19, 1991, in Miami, Florida) was a Cuban independent ethnographer.

Date of birth: 20 May 1899

Date of death: 19 September 1991

Age: 92 (age at death)

Nationality: Cuban

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Female

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Cuban women anthropologists 2T

American Folklorists of Color 15T

20th-century Cuban women writers 37T
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Severo Sarduy

Cuban writer

Overview: Severo Sarduy (February 25, 1937 – June 8, 1993) was a Cuban poet, author, playwright, and critic of Cuban literature and art. Some of his works deal explicitly with male homosexuality and transvestism ...

Date of birth: 25 February 1937

Date of death: 8 June 1993

Age: 56 (age at death)

Nationality: Cuban

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

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20th-century male writers 5,043T

Cuban male poets 59T

Cuban male writers 146T
10.

Teté Casuso

Overview: Lorenza Teresa Inocencia Casuso y Morín (better known as "Teté" Casuso; 10 August 1912 – 28 July 1994) was a prominent Cuban intellectual, who fought for democracy and freedom in Cuba. As a writer, she ...

Date of birth: 10 August 1912

Date of death: 28 July 1994

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: Cuban

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Cuban women journalists 23T

Cuban women ambassadors 4T

20th-century Cuban novelists 29T
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Gina Pellón

Cuban artist

Overview: Gina Pellón (December 26, 1926 – March 27, 2014) was a Cuban painter who lived in France. She was known for her abstract expressive paintings in strong colours, usually depicting women. She also wrote ...

Date of birth: 26 December 1926

Date of death: 27 March 2014

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: Cuban

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Female

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21st-century Cuban women artists 25T

20th-century Cuban women artists 29T

Cuban women painters 16T
12.

Alba de Céspedes y Bertini

Cuban-Italian writer and poet

Overview: Alba de Céspedes y Bertini (11 March 1911 – 14 November 1997) was a Cuban-Italian writer.

Date of birth: 11 March 1911

Date of death: 14 November 1997

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: Cuban

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Female

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20th-century Cuban novelists 29T

20th-century Italian women writers 149T

Italian women journalists 75T
13.

Dora Alonso

Journalist and writer

Overview: Dora Alonso (born Doralina de la Caridad Alonso-Perez on December 22, 1910 in Maximo Gomez, Matanzas, Cuba – March 21, 2001 in Cuba) was a Cuban journalist and writer who worked in both print and radio ...

Date of birth: 22 December 1910

Date of death: 21 March 2001

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: Cuban

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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Cuban women journalists 23T

20th-century Cuban novelists 29T

Cuban female comics artists 1T
14.

Gustavo Pérez Firmat

American novelist

Overview: Gustavo Pérez Firmat was born in 1949, Havana, Cuba, and raised in Miami, Florida. He attended Miami-Dade Community College, the University of Miami, and the University of Michigan, where he earned a ...

Nationality: Cuban

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

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Cuban male novelists 34T

21st-century Cuban novelists 15T

20th-century Cuban novelists 29T
15.

Carilda Oliver Labra

poet

Overview: Carilda Oliver Labra (6 July 1922 – 29 August 2018) was a Cuban poet. She was born in Matanzas and died there as well.

Date of birth: 1924

Date of death: 29 August 2018

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: Cuban

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Female

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2018 deaths 9,212T

21st-century Cuban women writers 13T

2018 deaths 7,472T
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Pedro Luis Boitel

Cuban writer and dissident

Overview: Pedro Luis Boitel (1931–May 25, 1972) was a Cuban poet and dissident who opposed the governments of both Fulgencio Batista and Fidel Castro. In 1961, the regime sentenced him to 10 years in prison.

Date of birth: 1931

Date of death: 1972

Age: 40 (age at death)

Nationality: Cuban

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

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Cuban male poets 59T

Cuban male writers 146T

Male poets 2,241T
17.

Nancy Morejón

Cuban writer

Overview: Nancy Morejón (born 1944 in Havana) is a Cuban poet, critic, and essayist. She was a recipient of the Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Award.

Date of birth: 1944

Age: 80

Nationality: Cuban

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Female

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21st-century Cuban women writers 13T

20th-century Cuban women writers 37T

21st-century Cuban poets 20T
18.

Alberto Bayo

Cuban general

Overview: Alberto Bayo y Giroud (March 27, 1892 in Camagüey – August 4, 1967 in Havana) was a Cuban military leader of the defeated left-wing Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War. He was also a poet and essayist.

Date of birth: 1892

Date of death: 1967

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: Cuban

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

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Cuban male poets 59T

Cuban male writers 146T

Male poets 2,241T
19.

Heberto Padilla

Cuban poet

Overview: Heberto Juan Padilla (20 January 1932 – 25 September 2000) was a Cuban poet, and the center of the so-called "Padilla affair" when he was imprisoned for criticizing the government. He was born in ...

Date of birth: 1932

Date of death: 2000

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: Cuban

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

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20th-century male writers 5,043T

Cuban male poets 59T

Cuban male writers 146T
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Dulce María Loynaz

Cuban writer

Overview: Dulce María Loynaz Muñoz (10 December 1902 – 27 April 1997) was a Cuban poet.

Date of birth: 10 December 1902

Date of death: 27 April 1997

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: Cuban

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Female

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20th-century Cuban women writers 37T

Cuban women poets 42T

University of Havana alumni 82T