Guillermo Cabrera Infante Painting

Acrylic on paper Guillermo Cabrera Infante was born on April 22, 1929, in Gibara, a small town on the northern coast of the Cuban province of Oriente—also the birthplace of Fulgencio Batista and Fidel Castro. Because his parents were members of the Communist Party, the family was obliged to move to Havana in 1941. He grew up with a double interest: literature and cinema. In 1947, he published his first story and in 1951 he founded the Cinemateca de Cuba. Briefly jailed in 1952 for publishing a tale containing English profanities, he had to write under a pseudonym: G. Cain. Cain became Cuba’s best-known film critic. In 1957, he took part in underground, anti-Batista activities. When Batista abdicated (December 31, 1958), he worked on the newspaper Revolución, as editor of the Monday literary supplement. He traveled in the entourage of Fidel Castro through the U.S. and Latin America. In 1960, he published his first book of stories, As in Peace, So in War. By 1961, his relation with the Castro government had soured: Lunes, the literary supplement, was banned. He was named cultural attaché in Brussels in 1962, the same year G. Cain published his collected film reviews (with a preface by G. Cabrera Infante). The manuscript version of Three Trapped Tigers was nominated for the Prix Formentor in 1965. That same year Cabrera Infante returned to Havana for his mother’s funeral and left Cuba forever on October 3. He remained in Madrid until October of 1966, when he moved to London. His publications available in English include: Three Trapped Tigers (1971), View of Dawn in the Tropics (1978), the essay “Bites From the Bearded Crocodile” (London Review of Books, June 1981). His most recent novel, La Habana para un infante difunto (1979), is currently being translated with the provisional title Infante’s Inferno.

Painting:Acrylic on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:11.8 W x 11.8 H x 0 D in

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