Antón Arrufat Explained

Antón Arrufat Mrad (14 August 1935 – 21 May 2023) was a Cuban dramatist, novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.

Life and career

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]

Works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Antón Arrufat. Biografía . Cubaliteraria.cu . 6 September 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305110515/http://www.cubaliteraria.cu/autor/anton_arrufat/biografia.html . 5 March 2016 . dead .
  2. Web site: 16 July 2020. Princeton University Library Finding Aids. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20151005174516/http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/C0737 . 5 October 2015 . Princeton University Library.
  3. News: Muere el escritor cubano Antón Arrufat, censurado y reivindicado por el régimen . 21 May 2023 . 14ymedio . 21 May 2023.