Lino Novás Calvo

Lino Novás Calvo was born in Galicia, in 1903 or 1905 depending on the sources, and came to Cuba as a child, where he held various jobs before turning to journalism and teaching French. In the early thirties he wrote in Madrid for the magazine Orbe, El Sol and the Revista de Occidente, then covered the Spanish Civil War. Back in Cuba in 1939, he translated Huxley, Faulkner and Hemingway. Exiled in 1960, he taught at Syracuse University and died in New York in 1983.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelEl negrero: vida novelada de Pedro Blanco Fernández de TravaLino Novás Calvo · 1933not translated into EnglishLiterature