Guillermo Cabrera Infante (April 22, 1929 – February 21, 2005) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín. April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... An essayist is an author who writes compositions which can be about any particular subject. ... Translation is an activity comprising the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language—the source text—and the production of a new, equivalent text in another language—the target text, also called the translation. ... A critic (derived from the ancient Greek word krites meaning a judge) is a person who offers a value judgement or an interpretation. ...

A one-time supporter of the Castro regime, Cabrera Infante went into exile to London in 1965. He is best known for the novel Tres Tristes Tigres (published in English as Three Trapped Tigers), which has been compared favorably to James Joyce's Ulysses. Cuban President Fidel Castro waves the Cuban flag during May Day celebrations, 2005 Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926), has led Cuba since 1959, when, leading the 26th of July Movement, he overthrew the government of Fulgencio Batista. ... Greater London and the Regions of England. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, and is widely considered one of the most significant writers of the 20th century. ... The name Ulysses can mean: The Roman equivalent of Odysseus A 1922 novel by James Joyce: Ulysses (novel) A 1967 movie based on the novel, Ulysses (movie) A solar probe: Ulysses (spacecraft) A poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson A anime television program produced by DiC Entertainment: Ulysses 31 An indie...

Life

Born in Gibara in Cuba's former Oriente Province (now part of Holguín Province), in 1941 he moved with his parents, to Havana, which would be the setting of nearly all of his writings other than his critical works. His parents were founding members of the Cuban Communist Party. Provinces of Cuba Cuba consists of 14 provinces, plus one special municipality. ... Holguín is one of the provinces of Cuba, the second most populous after Ciudad de la Habana. ... Havana (Spanish: San Cristóbal de La Habana) is the capital of Cuba and, with a population of 2. ... The Communist Party of Cuba (Spanish: Partido Comunista de Cuba, PCC) is the ruling party of Cuba. ...

Originally he intended to become a physician, but abandoned that in favor of writing and his passion for the cinema. Starting in 1950, he studied journalism at he University of Havana. University of Havana or UH (in Spanish, Universidad de la Habana) was founded in September 21, 1721 and is the oldest university in Cuba and one of the first to be founded in the Americas. ...

In 1951 he founded the Cinemateca de Cuba, of which he remained director until its closure was ordered by Fulgencio Batista in 1956. Under the Batista regime he was arrested and fined in 1952 for publishing a short story which included several English-language profanities. His opposition to Batista later cost him a short jail term. 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar General Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was the de facto leader of Cuba from 1933 to 1940 and the countrys official president from 1940 to 1944 and again from 1952 to 1959. ...

He married for the first time in 1953. From 1954 to 1960 he wrote film reviews for the magazine Carteles, using the pseudonym G. Caín; he became its editor in chief, still pseudonymously, in 1957. With the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 he was named director of the Instituto del Cine. He was also head of the literary magazine Lunes de Revolución, a supplement to the Communist newspaper Revolución; however, this supplement was prohibited in 1961 by Fidel Castro. 1954 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Cuban Revolution was the overthrow of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista by the 26th of July Movement and the establishment of a new government led by Fidel Castro in the 1950s. ... Cuban President Fidel Castro waves the Cuban flag during May Day celebrations, 2005 Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926), has led Cuba since 1959, when, leading the 26th of July Movement, he overthrew the government of Fulgencio Batista. ...

He divorced and remarried in 1961 to his second wife, Miriam, an actress. Having fallen somewhat, but not totally, out of favor with the Castro regime (the government's ban on a documentary on Havana nightlife made by his brother led to him being forbidden to publish in Cuba), he served from 1962 to 1965 in Brussels, Belgium as a cultural attaché. During this time, his sentiments turned against the Castro regime; after returning to Cuba for his mother's funeral in 1965, he exiled himself, first to Madrid and then to London. Emblem of the Brussels-Capital Region Flag of The City of Brussels Brussels (Dutch: Brussel, French: Bruxelles, German: Brüssel) is the capital of Belgium and is considered by many to be the de facto capital of the European Union, as two of its three main institutions have their headquarters... Coat of arms The Plaza de España square Madrid, the capital of Spain, is located in the center of the country at 40°25′ N 3°45′ W. Population of the city of Madrid proper was 3,093,000 (Madrilenes, madrileños) as of 2003 estimates. ...

In 1966 he published Tres tristes tigres, a highly experimental, Joycean novel, playful and rich in literary allusions, which also intended to do for Cuban Spanish what Mark Twain had done for American English, recording the great variety of its colloquial variations. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a famous and popular American humorist, writer and lecturer. ... American English or U.S. English is the diverse form of the English language used mostly in the United States of America. ...

Although he is considered a part of the famed Latin American "Boom" generation of writers that includes his contemporary Gabriel García Márquez, he disdained the label. Always the iconoclast, he even rejected the label "novel" for his masterpieces, such as "Tres Tristes Tigres" and "La Habana para un infante difunto."

In 1997 he received the Premio Cervantes, which was given to him by Spain's King Juan Carlos. Premio Miguel de Cervantes (the Miguel de Cervantes Prize) is awarded annually to honor the whole career of an outstanding writer in Spanish language. ... King Juan Carlos I His Majesty King Juan Carlos I (Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón), styled HM The King (born January 5, 1938), is the reigning King of Spain. ...

He died February 21, 2005 in London, of septicemia. He had two daughters by his first marriage. February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sepsis (in Greek Σήψις) is a serious medical condition caused by a severe systemic infection leading to a systemic inflammatory response. ...

Works

• Así en la paz como en la guerra (1960, "So in peace as in war")
• Twentieth Century Job (1963, film reviews)
• Vista del amanecer en el trópico (1964, novel, published in English as "A View of Dawn in the Tropics")
• Tres Tristes Tigres (1967, novel, published in English as Three Trapped Tigers; the original title refers to a Spanish-language tongue-twister, and literally means "Three Sad Tigers"); portions of this were later republished as Ella cantaba boleros
• Exorcismos de esti(l)o (1976, novel, "Exorcisms of style"; estilo means style and estío, summertime)
• La Habana para un Infante Difunto (1979, memoir, published in English as Infante's Inferno; the Spanish title is a pun on "Pavane pour une infante defunte", title of a piano piece by Maurice Ravel)
• Holy Smoke, 1985 (in English, later translated into Spanish as Puro Humo)
• Cine o sardina (1997, "Cinema or sardine")
• Vidas para leerlas (1998, essays, "Lives to be read")
• Arcadia todas las noches ("Arcadia every night")
• Mea Cuba (1991, political essays, the title means "Piss Cuba" and is a pun on "Mea Culpa")
• Infantería (title is a pun on his name and the Spanish for "infantry")

Cabrera Infante also translated James Joyce's Dubliners into Spanish (1972) and wrote screenplays, including the adaptation of Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano. Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a French composer and pianist, best known for his orchestral work, Boléro, and his famous 1922 orchestral arrangement of Modest Mussorgskys Pictures at an Exhibition. ... The page is about the book Dubliners, for the Irish folk band see The Dubliners Categories: Literature stubs | 1914 books | Irish literature | Modernist texts ... Malcolm Lowry (July 28, 1909 - June 27, 1957) was a novelist. ... Under the Volcano (1947) is a semi-autobiographical novel by English writer Malcolm Lowry. ...

References

• Guillermo Cabrera Infante (http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/c/cabrera.htm) (in Spanish, part of Biografías y Vidas). Retrieved February 22, 2005.
• Guillermo Cabrera Infante (http://www.portal-local.com/occu_cer_cabr_vid.asp) (in Spanish, from a site about the Premio Cervantes). Retrieved February 22, 2005.
• Guillermo Cabrera Infante (http://www.literaturacubana.com/detalleAutor.asp?ida=135) (in Spanish, from LiteraturaCubana.com). Retrieved February 22, 2005.
• "Cuban-born novelist Guillermo Cabrera Infante dies" (http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1420211,00.html), Associated Press obituary, on the site of The Guardian. Retrieved February 22, 2005.