Norberto Fuentes

Norberto Fuentes was born in Havana on 2 March 1943. A journalist and writer, he received at twenty-five a major continental literary prize, before enduring a long literary silencing. A close friend of Fidel Castro, he knows the Cuban secret services at first hand and devoted two books to Hemingway's stay in Cuba. Arrested after trying to leave the island, he was freed thanks to Gabriel García Márquez and William Kennedy, and has since lived in the United States.

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• Short storiesCondenados de CondadoNorberto Fuentes · 1968not translated into EnglishLiterature