Eduardo Manet (born 19 June 1930) is a Cuban-born novelist and playwright writing in French. His work has been translated into over 20 languages.

Life

Born in

Santiago de Cuba Santiago de Cuba is the second-largest city in Cuba and the capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province. It lies in the southeastern area of the island, some southeast of the Cuban capital of Havana. The municipality extends over , and contains ...

, Manet lived in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ...

and Italy in the 1950s. In 1960 he returned to

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, becoming director of the National Dramatic Ensemble at the National Theater of Cuba. After

Fidel Castro Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (; ; 13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2 ...

supported the

Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia refers to the events of 20–21 August 1968, when the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was jointly invaded by four Warsaw Pact countries: the Soviet Union, the Polish People's Republic, the People's Rep ...

in 1968, Manet returned to Paris, where he has lived subsequently.Interview with Eduardo Manet
''Sites'' 2:2 (Fall 1998)

Works

* ''Les Nonnes'', 1969. by Robert Baldick as ''The nuns'', 1970 * ''Eux; ou, La prise du pouvoir, 1971. * ''L'île du lézard vert: roman'', 1992. * ''Rhapsodie cubaine: roman'', 1996. * ''D'amour et d'exil: roman'', 1999. * ''La sagesse du singe: roman'', 2001. * ''Maestro!: roman'', 2002. * ''Mes années Cuba'', 2004. * ''Ma vie de Jésus: roman'', 2005.

References

1930 births Living people People from Santiago de Cuba North American writers in French French screenwriters Cuban male novelists Cuban dramatists and playwrights 20th-century French dramatists and playwrights Prix Interallié winners Prix Goncourt des lycéens winners 20th-century French male writers {{Cuba-writer-stub