Antón Arrufat Mrad (14 August 1935 – 21 May 2023) was a Cuban dramatist, novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.
Life and career
Arrufat was 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 t ...
,
Cuba
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on 14 August 1935. He was of mixed
Catalan and
Lebanese parentage. At the age of 11, he moved with his family from Santiago de Cuba to Havana. He studied philology at the
University of Havana
The University of Havana (UH; ) is a public university located in the Vedado district of Havana, the capital of Cuba. Founded on 5 January 1728, the university is the oldest in Cuba, and one of the first to be founded in the Americas. Originall ...
. His first book appeared in 1962, a collection of his early poems. He won the
Premio Nacional de Literatura de Cuba in 2000.
The Antón Arrufat Papersare held at Princeton University Library. They consist "of manuscripts of poems, short stories, novels, and criticism by Antón Arrufat, Virgilio Piñera, and Witold Gombrowicz; and correspondence of Antón Arrufat."
Arrufat died of bronchopneumonia on 21 May 2023, at the age of 87.
Works
* ''El caso se investiga'', pieza estrenada en 1957
* ''En claro'', poesía, 1962
* ''Mi antagonista y otras observaciones'', cuentos, 1963
* ''Repaso final'', poesía, 1963
* ''Teatro'', colección de piezas, 1963
* ''Todos los domingos'', teatro, 1964
* ''Escrito en las puertas'', poesía, 1968
* ''Los siete contra Tebas'' teatro, 1968
* ''La caja está cerrada'', novela, 1984
* ''La huella en la arena'', poesía, 1986
* ''La tierra permanente'', teatro, 1987
* ''¿Qué harás después de mí?'', cuentos, 1988
* ''Las pequeñas cosas'', prosas, 1988
* ''Cámara de amor'', teatro, 1994
* ''Lirios sobre un fondo de espadas'', poesía, 1995
* ''La divina Fanny'', teatro, 1995
* ''Virgilio Piñera: entre él y yo'', ensayo, 1995
* ''Ejercicios para hacer de la esterilidad virtud'', cuentos, 1998
* ''El viejo carpintero'', poesía, 1999
* ''La noche del Aguafiestas'', novela, 2000
* ''Las tres partes del criollo'', teatro, 2003
* ''El hombre discursivo'', ensayos, ed Letras Cubanas, 2005
* ''El convidado del juicio'', ensayos, ed. Ediciones Unión, 2015
References
1935 births
2023 deaths
Cuban male writers
Cuban dramatists and playwrights
University of Havana alumni
Cuban people of Catalan descent
Cuban people of Lebanese descent
People from Santiago de Cuba
Deaths from bronchopneumonia
Deaths from pneumonia in Cuba
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