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Virgilio Piñera

Died in 1979

Virgilio Piñera was born on 4 August 1912 in Cárdenas, the son of a railway engineer and a schoolteacher. After studying at the University of Havana, he contributed to the review Orígenes, then lived in Buenos Aires from 1946 to 1958, where he frequented Borges and became friends with the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz. Back in Cuba at the time of the revolution, he was imprisoned in 1961 and thereafter lived on the margins. Author of Cuentos fríos and La carne de René, he received the Casa de las Américas Prize for Dos viejos pánicos. He died in Havana on 18 October 1979.

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