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Nicolás Guillén

Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista was a Cuban poet, journalist and political activist. He is best remembered as the national poet of Cuba.

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culture · Cuban poet, journalist and political activist (1902–1989) · poet · journalist · writer · also Nicolás Guillén, Nicolas Guillen, Guillén

Born 10 July 1902 · Died 16 July 1989 · Q334118

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Awarded National Prize for Literature (1983).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University (1976).
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2024· 1 entry

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During his 6 year sentence at 29 years old

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1989· 1 entry

Jul 16, 1989Documented record86% confidence

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Died 1989-07-16.

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1983· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1983Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded National Prize for Literature (1983).

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1983Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Was the inaugural winner of Cuba's National Prize for Literature

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1976· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1976Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University (1976).

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Jun 15, 1976Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded International Botev Prize (1976).

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1974· 1 entry

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The Institute of Jamaica awarded Guillén the Musgrave Medal, literature

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1971· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1971Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Viareggio-Versilia International Prize (1971).

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1961· 1 entry

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Was appointed as president of the Unión Nacional de Escritores de Cuba, the National Cuban Writers' Union, serving for more than 25 years

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1954· 2 entries

1954Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Guillén was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize (it was later renamed for Lenin under de-Stalinization)

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1954Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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The 1976 International Botev Prize, and in 1983 he was the inaugural winner of Cuba's National Prize for Literature

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1953· 2 entries

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After being in Chile, he was refused re-entry to Cuba and spent five years in exile

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1953Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Was prevented by the Fulgencio Batista government from re-entering Cuba after a trip to Chile and had to spend five years in exile

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1937· 1 entry

1937Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Joined the Communist Party and made his first trip abroad in July 1937 to attend the Second International Writers' Congress, the purpose of which was to discuss the attitude of intellectuals to the war in Spain, held

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1936· 2 entries

1936Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Guillén joined the Communist Party the next year, traveling to Spain for a Congress of Writers and Artists, and covering the Spanish Civil War as a magazine reporter

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1936Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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With other editors of Mediodía, Guillén was arrested on trumped-up charges, and spent some time in jail

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1934· 1 entry

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Was Guillén's first collection with political implications

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1933· 1 entry

1933Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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But political repression in the following years intensified

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1930· 1 entry

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José Antonio Fernández de Castro, publisher of the Havana daily paper, Diario de la Marina, and the first to translate American Langston Hughes’s poetry to Spanish, arranged for the two poets to meet

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1902· 1 entry

Jul 10, 1902Documented record86% confidence

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Born 1902-07-10.

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