Lisandro Otero

Lisandro Otero ( born June 4, 1933, Havana, Cuba; † 3 January 2008) was a Cuban writer, journalist and diplomat.

Life

Lisandro Otero studied philosophy in Havana until 1954 and made a journalism degree from the Manuel Márquez -Sterling school. From 1954 to 1956 he studied literature at the Sorbonne. He was editor in chief of Cuban periodicals such as magazines or Revolución y Cultura Cuba. He also works with other newspapers together as bohemia, The Posters, Granma, Juventud Rebelde, El Mundo, Casa de las Américas, Unión, La Gaceta de Cuba, as well as in Le Monde Diplomatique, Partisans, Europe, Washington Post, Excelsior from Mexico and last with El Sol de Mexico. In Chile, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, he worked as Kulturattacheé.

Since 2004, Lisandro Otero was President of the Cuban Academy of Language.

Work and honors

Otero was one of the most important authors of Cuba. He has published more than 20 books and numerous essays, short stories and journalistic essays. His work has been translated into fourteen languages.

Otero 1963 situación awarded the Literature Prize of the Casa de las Américas La competition. In 1965, he earned an award in the competition of the Biblioteca Breve in Barcelona for his novel Pasión de Urbino ( Urbino Passion) and in 1983 was awarded the prize of literary criticism for Temporadas de Angeles. He was National award winner for literature in 2002. In 1991 he was awarded the honorary professorship from the Academy of Fine Arts in Havana. In addition, Otero was awarded the National Prize for Journalism in Cuba, Félix Elmuza Order, the medal for the fighters secretly fight and the Commemorative Medal for the 30th anniversary of the Cuban army, and the Alejo Carpentier Medal honored.

He was a member of the Royal Academy of the Spanish language as well as a member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language

He wrote the book for the musical El Solar. His works were, Italian, French, English, Russian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Czech translated into German.

Works

First editions in Spanish

  • Tabaco para un Jueves Santo y otros cuentos cubanos, Paris 1955.
  • La situación, La Habana 1963.
  • Pasión de Urbino, Buenos Aires 1966.
  • En busca de Viet Nam ( essays ), La Havana in 1970.
  • En ciudad semejante, La Habana, 1970.
  • Temporada de Angeles, La Habana 1983.
  • Bolero, La Habana 1984.
  • General a Caballo, La Habana 1980.
  • Llover sobre mojado, La Habana 1997.
  • El Arbol de la vida, Ciudad de México 1990.
  • La Travesía, Ciudad de México 1995.
  • De Gutenberg a Bill Gates, La Habana, 2003.
  • Charada, La Habana, 2004.
  • Avisos de ocasión, La Habana, 2006.

In German translation

  • Rebellion in paradise. Eyewitness accounts from Cuba. Publisher of the nation, Berlin 1961.
  • Schaler whiskey. Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1967.
  • Woe to you, great city. Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1973.
  • City in the fire. World Circle -Verlag, Dortmund 1985.
  • General on horseback. World Circle -Verlag, Dortmund 1985, and publishing folk and world, Berlin 1986.
  • Bolero. The story of a Caribbean singer. Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1988.
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