# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/reinaldo-arenas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:12:10.005Z

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name: "Reinaldo Arenas"
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description: "Reinaldo Arenas was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who is known as a vocal critic of Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution, and the Cuban government. His memoir of the Cuban dissident movement and of being a political prisoner, Before Night Falls, was dictated after his escape to the United States during the 1980 Mariel boatlift and published posthumously. Arenas, who was dying of AIDS, killed himself in 1990."
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1943-07-16"
deathDate: "1990-12-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump