biography
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| (1904–80)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Havana, Cuba. For many years he lived in France and Venezuela, but returned to Cuba after the revolution and served in several official government posts. A musicologist, he was professor of music history at the National Conservatory. One of the major Latin-American writers of the 20th-c, his numerous books include El siglo de las luces (1962, trans Explosion in the Cathedral), El reino de este mundo (1949, The Kingdom of this World), and Los pasos perdidos (1953, The Lost Steps). |
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