List of Cuban-American writers
This is a list of the most notable Cuban-American writers.
| Name | Year of birth/death | Portrait | Notes |
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| Alex Abella | 1950- | Mystery/crime novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist | |
| Agustín Acosta Bello[1] | 1886-1979 | ||
| Iván Acosta | Playwright; works include El Super (movie version 1979) and Un cubiche en la luna (1989)[2] | ||
| Mercedes de Acosta | 1893-1968 | 
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| Armando Alvarez Bravo[1] | 1938- | ||
| Reinaldo Arenas[3] | 1943-1990 | ||
| René Ariza | 1940-1994 | ||
| Octavio Armand | 1946- | Poet[2] | |
| Joaquín Badajoz | 1972- | 
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Poet, author, essayist (North American Academy of the Spanish Language, fellow member) |
| Jesús J. Barquet[4] | |||
| José Barreiro[5] | 1948- | ||
| Ruth Behar[6] | 1956- | 
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| Juana Borrero[1] | 1877-1896 | 
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| Gaspar Betancourt Cisneros[7] | 1803-1866 | ||
| Richard Blanco[5] | 1968- | American poet, public speaker, author and civil engineer | |
| Bonifacio Byrne[1] | 1861-1936 | Poet | |
| Rafael Campo[3] | 1964- | Physician and author | |
| Yanitzia Canetti | 1967- | ||
| Jose Manuel Carbonell | 1880-1968 | "Poet, politician, diplomat, and scholar"[1] | |
| Alejo Carpentier | 1904-1980 | 
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| Lourdes Casal | 1938-1981 | Poet[2] | |
| Sandra M. Castillo[5] | Poet | ||
| Adrian Castro [5] | 1967- | Poet | |
| Daína Chaviano | 1957- | Novelist, poet, and award-winning novelist of Azorín Prize for Best Novel (Spain), among other international awards. | |
| Migdia Chinea-Varela | 1971- | ||
| Rene Cifuentes[4] | |||
| Miguel Correa[4] | |||
| Nilo Cruz | 1960- | Playwright[3] | |
| Angel Cuadra[1] | 1931- | Poet | |
| Silvia Curbelo | 1955- [5] | ||
| Belkis Cuza Malé[1] | 1942- | ||
| Frederick A. de Armas | 1945- | Literary scholar, critic and novelist | |
| Miguel A. De La Torre | 1958- | ||
| Carmen Agra Deedy | |||
| Pura del Prado[1] | 1931-1996[8] | ||
| Carlos Eire | 1950- | Memoirist[3] | |
| Margarita Engle[6] | 1951- | ||
| Amando Fernandez | 1949-1994 | "Poet and teacher"[1] | |
| Frank Fernández | 1934- | ||
| Roberto G. Fernández[3] | 1951- | ||
| Eugenio Florit[1] | 1903-1999 | ||
| María Irene Fornés | 1930- | .jpg)
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| Paula Fox | 1923-2017 | ||
| Carlos Franqui | 1921-2010 | 
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| Cristina García[3] | 1958- | ||
| Carolina Garcia-Aguilera[3] | 1949- | ||
| Miguel Garcia Ramos[4] | |||
| Valentina L. Garza | |||
| Jorge Enrique González Pacheco | 1969- | Poet | |
| Ibis Gómez-Vega | 1952- | Novelist | |
| Celedonio González | Novelist; works include Los primos (1971) and Los cuatro embajadores (1973)[2] | ||
| Jorge Guitart[5] | Poet | ||
| Andrea O'Reilly Herrera[5] | Novelist, academic [1] | ||
| Oscar Hijuelos[3] | 1951-2013 | ||
| Carolina Hospital[1] | 1957- [9] | ||
| Enrique Labrador Ruiz[1] | 1902-1991 | ||
| Ivonne Lamazares[1] | Novelist, academic [2] | ||
| Robert Lima | Poet, playwright and literary critic; grandson of Cuban patriot Col. Alfredo Lima Tardiff | ||
| Melinda Lopez | Playwright[3] | ||
| Eduardo Machado[3] | 1953- | ||
| José Martí[3] | 1853-1895 | 
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| Dionisio D. Martinez[5] | 1956- | ||
| Pablo Medina | 1960- | Poet[2] | |
| Ana Menéndez | 1970- | ||
| Carlos Montenegro[1] | 1900-1981 | ||
| Matías Montes Huidobro | 1931- | Novelist; works include Desterrados al fuego (1975)[2] | |
| Gean Moreno | 1972- [5] | ||
| Martin Morúa Delgado[1] | 1857-1910[10] | ||
| Elías Miguel Muñoz | 1954- [5] | Poet and novelist, author of Crazy Love (1988) and The Greatest Performance (1991), as well as works in Spanish[2] | |
| Victor Nickolich | 1951- | Novelist, biographer, author of The Lynx autobiography. | |
| Anaïs Nin | 1903-1977 | ||
| Lino Novás Calvo | 1903-1983 | Novelist; works include Maneras de contar (1970)[2] | |
| Ana Rosa Núñez[1] | 1926-1999 | Poet, librarian | |
| Achy Obejas[3] | 1956- | ||
| Mirta Ojito[4] | |||
| Herberto Padilla[1] | 1932-2000 | ||
| Martha Padilla[1] | 1928-2004[11] | Poet | |
| Ricardo Pau-Llosa | 1954- | Poet[3] | |
| Luis de la Paz[4] | |||
| Manuel Pereiras García | 1950- | ||
| Hilda Perera[1] | 1926- [12] | ||
| Anthony Perez[1] | 1969- | ||
| Gustavo Pérez Firmat | "Poet, memoirist, literary critic"[3] | ||
| Carlos Pintado | 1974- | Author, playwright and award-winning poet of Sant Jordi International Prize for Poetry | |
| Juana Rosa Pita[1] | 1939- | ||
| Dolores Prida | 1943-2013 | Playwright; English-language works include those collected in Beautiful Señoritas and Other Plays (1991)[2] | |
| Jorge Reyes | 1972-2015 | ||
| Beatriz Rivera[5] | Novelist | ||
| Isel Rivero | Poet[2] | ||
| Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés[3] | Poet, academic [3] | ||
| Antonio Sacre | 1968- | ||
| José Sánchez-Boudy | Poet[2] | ||
| Pedro Santacilia[7] | 1826-1910 | ||
| Virgil Suárez | 1962- | Novelist, poet[3] | |
| Diego Vicente Tejera[1] | 1848-1903[13] | ||
| Piri Thomas | 1928-2011 | ||
| Miguel Teurbe Tolón[7] | 1820-1857 | 
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| Omar Torres | Novelist; works include Apenas un bolero (1981), Al partir (1986), and Fallen Angels Sing (1991)[2] | ||
| Carmelita Tropicana | |||
| Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez | 1969- | ||
| Roberto Valero[4] | |||
| Félix Varela[1] | 1788-1853 | 
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| Charlie Vázquez | 1971- | ||
| Marisella Veiga[1] | 1957- | ||
| Dan Vera | |||
| Carlos Victoria[4] | |||
| Cirilo Villaverde[7] | 1812-1894 | ||
| Rubén Martínez Villena[1] | 1899-1934 | 
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| José Yglesias[5] | 1919-1995 | ||
| Juan Clemente Zenea[7] | 1832-1871 |
See also
- Cuban American literature
- List of Cuban writers
- List of Cuban women writers
- List of Cuban Americans
- Before Columbus Foundation
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y Hospital 1996.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Marc Zimmerman, U.S. Latino Literature: An Essay and Annotated Bibliography, MARCH/Abrazo, 1992.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Ortíz 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Donaldo W. Urioste; et al. (2017). Historical Dictionary of U.S. Latino Literature. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-7549-2.
{{cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in:|author=(help) - ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Suárez 1996.
- ^ a b Álvarez Borland 1998.
- ^ a b c d e Lazo 2005.
- ^ Vicki L. Ruiz; Virginia Sánchez Korrol, eds. (2006). Latinas in the United States: a Historical Encyclopedia. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-11169-2.
- ^ "Carolina Hospital, 1957-". WorldCat. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
- ^ "Martín Morúa Delgado". EcuRed (in Spanish). Cuba: Joven Club de Computación. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
- ^ "Martha Padilla". USA: Cintas Foundation. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
- ^ "Hilda Perera (Cuba) (1926–)". Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape. Washington, DC: US Library of Congress. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
- ^ "Diego Vicente Tejera". EcuRed (in Spanish). Cuba. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
Bibliography
- Carolina Hospital; Jorge Cantera, eds. (1996). A Century of Cuban Writers in Florida: Selected Prose and Poetry. Sarasota: Pineapple Press. ISBN 978-1-56164-104-8. (Anthology; includes writer biographies)
- Virgil Suárez; Delia Poey, eds. (1996). Little Havana Blues: a Cuban-American Literature Anthology. Houston: Arte Público Press. ISBN 978-1-61192-207-3. (Anthology; includes writer biographies)
- Isabel Álvarez Borland (1998). Cuban–American Literature of Exile: From Person to Persona. University of Virginia Press.[4]
- Rodrigo Lazo (2005). Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States. Envisioning Cuba. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807829307. [5]
- Ricardo L. Ortíz (2013). "Canons: Cuban-American Literature". In Suzanne Bost; Frances R. Aparicio (eds.). Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature. Routledge. pp. 413–422. ISBN 978-1-136-22160-6. [6]