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Nicolás Guillén

1902 - 1989

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Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista (10 July 1902 – 16 July 1989) was a Cuban poet, journalist and political activist. He is best remembered as the national poet of Cuba. Born in Camagüey, Cuba, he studied law at the University of Havana, but abandoned a legal career and worked as both a typographer and journalist. His poetry was published in various magazines from the early 1920s; his first collection, Motivos de son (1930) was strongly influenced by his meeting that year with the African-American poet, Langston Hughes. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicolás Guillén is the 1,885th most popular writer (up from 1,996th in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Cuba (up from 37th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Cuban Writer.

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Among writers, Nicolás Guillén ranks 1,885 out of 7,302. Before him are Hugh Lofting, Tonino Guerra, Tristan Corbière, Chūya Nakahara, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, and Gloria E. Anzaldúa. After him are Luigi Illica, Ğabdulla Tuqay, Pjetër Bogdani, Émile Augier, João de Barros, and Rómulo Gallegos.

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Among people born in 1902, Nicolás Guillén ranks 93. Before him are Wifredo Lam, Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Lyubov Orlova, Josef Krips, Giuseppe Pella, and Darryl F. Zanuck. After him are Jean Rey, Bruno Streckenbach, Samuel Goudsmit, Hans Bellmer, Elsa Lanchester, and Jean Bruller. Among people deceased in 1989, Nicolás Guillén ranks 80. Before him are Bernard Blier, Barbara W. Tuchman, Hassan Fathy, Carlos Arias Navarro, Hans Hartung, and Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev. After him are Margarete Buber-Neumann, Arseny Tarkovsky, Hibari Misora, Mihály Lantos, Kateb Yacine, and Franz Binder.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Nicolás Guillén ranks 34 out of 300. Before him are Tomás Estrada Palma (1835), Ramón Grau (1881), Manuel Marrero Cruz (1963), Wifredo Lam (1902), Sergio Oliva (1941), and Mel Martínez (1946). After him are Alberto Juantorena (1950), Leo Brouwer (1939), Omara Portuondo (1930), Huber Matos (1918), Tomas Milian (1933), and Carlos Puebla (1917).

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Among WRITERS In Cuba

Among writers born in Cuba, Nicolás Guillén ranks 4. Before him are Italo Calvino (1923), José Martí (1853), and Paul Lafargue (1842). After him are Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929), José-Maria de Heredia (1842), José Lezama Lima (1910), Leonardo Padura Fuentes (1955), Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (1950), Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814), Dulce María Loynaz (1902), and José María Heredia y Heredia (1803).

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