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Reinaldo Arenas (July 16, 1943 – December 7, 1990) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright known as a vocal critic of Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution, and the Cuban government.
Reinaldo Arenas was a Cuban-born writer of extraordinary and unconventional novels who fled persecution and immigrated to the United States. As a teenager Arenas joined the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power in 1959.
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Dec 5, 2013 · In 1983, the Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas spoke about his writing process and influences, and the experience of exile.
Reinaldo Arenas, a writer and poet, spent several years in prison during Fidel Castro’s regime in Cuba. Born and raised in the era of the Cuban Revolution, Arenas joined Castro’s revolutionary rebellion group as a teenager, but went against the regime after they began prosecuting homosexuals.
Dec 9, 1990 · Reinaldo Arenas, a novelist who spent several years in prison in Cuba under Fidel Castro, committed suicide on Friday in his apartment in Manhattan, the police said. The 47-year-old...
Dec 7, 1990 · Reinaldo Arenas. Born. in Aguas Claras, Holguín, Oriente region, Cuba. July 16, 1943. Died. December 07, 1990. Genre. Gay and Lesbian, Poetry, Biographies & Memoirs. Influences. Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, Robert Louis Stevenson. ...more. edit data.
Reinaldo Arenas (July 16, 1943 – December 7, 1990) was a Cuban poet, novelist, essayist and playwright. Despite his early sympathy for Fidel Castro 's revolution against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, he grew critical of and then rebelled against the Cuban government.
