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Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Novelist
Died
Feb 21, 2005
Zodiac
Taurus
Born in
Cuba
About
Remembered best for his 1967 novel Tres Tristes Tigres, Infante was the 1997 recipient of the prestigious Premio Cervantes. Also a screenwriter and journalist, he co-wrote the screenplay for Vanishing Point and, for a time, headed a Communist literary publication known as Lunes de Revolucion.
Family
He grew up in Gibara and Havana, Cuba as the son of Cuban Communist Party leaders. His first marriage, to Marta Calvo, resulted in daughters named Ana and Carola; he later married actress Miriam Gomez.

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