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Texts by Nicolás Guillén |
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Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista (1902‑1989). He was born in Cuba. In January 1937, he participates in the 1° congress of the Revolutionary Writers and Artists League of Mexico. He establishes contacts, among others, with Alfaro Siqueiros. In 1937 he travels to Spain to participate in the 2° International Writers Congress for the Defense of Culture, held in Barcelona, Valencia and Madrid. He establishes contacts, among others, with Pablo Neruda y Anna Seghers. He joins the Communist Party of Cuba. Having returned to Cuba, from 1939 to 1941 he is active in the political and cultural field, through the periodical Hoy and the National Antifascist Front, of which he is leader. In 1952 he travels to the USSR, the Popular Republic of China and Mongolia. The coup d'état de Batista that year, obliges him to exile. In 1959, as a result of the overthrow of Batista, he returns to Cuba. In 1961 is held in La Havana, the congress founding the Writers and Artists Union of Cuba (UNEAC), of which he is elected president, charge which he would held until his death. |
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