Miguel Barnet

Cuban writer · Cuba · On the map · Writers · Born 1940 · age 86

Miguel Ángel Barnet Lanza is a Cuban writer, novelist and ethnographer. Known as an expert on Afro-Cuban culture, he studied sociology at the University of Havana, under Fernando Ortiz, the pioneer of Cuban anthropology.

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Barnet on CUNY TV's Charlando con Cervantes, 1995.[1]

Awards

Premio Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso2007

Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany2004

Guggenheim Fellowship

About this person

Barnet is best known for his Biografia de un cimarrón (1966), the life of Esteban Montejo, a former slave who was 103 when they met. He had escaped and lived as a marron before slavery was abolished in Cuba.

Country

Cuba