# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roberto-fernandez-retamar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:10:52.290Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roberto-fernandez-retamar"
name: "Roberto Fernández Retamar"
slug: "roberto-fernandez-retamar"
description: "Roberto Fernández Retamar was a Cuban poet, essayist, literary critic and President of the Casa de las Américas. In his role as President of the organization, Fernández also served on the Council of State of Cuba. An early close confidant of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, he was a central figure in Cuba from the 1959 Revolution until his death in 2019. Fernández also wrote over a dozen major collections of verse and founded the Casa de las Americas cultural magazine."
tagline: "Cuban politician and writer (1930-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roque_Dalton_and_Roberto_Fern%C3%A1ndez_Retamar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1930-06-09"
deathDate: "2019-07-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.46551724137931
  historical:           8.961449333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump