Antón Arrufat
Cuban dramatist (1935–2023) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cuban dramatist (1935–2023) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Antón Arrufat Mrad (14 August 1935 – 21 May 2023) was a Cuban dramatist, novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.
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Arrufat was born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba 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. His first book appeared in 1962, a collection of his early poems. He won the Premio Nacional de Literatura de Cuba in 2000.[1]
The Antón Arrufat Papers are 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."[2]
Arrufat died of bronchopneumonia on 21 May 2023, at the age of 87.[3]
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