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Reinaldo Arenas
Cuban poet/novelist/playwright (1943-1990) · Cuba · On the map · Writers · Died at 47
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.
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About this person
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.
Country
Cuba
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1943 to 1990 · aged 47
