Guillermo Cabrera Infante Death Cause and Date

Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Death

Born (Birthday) April 22, 1929

Death Date February 21, 2005

Age of Death 75 years

Cause of Death Sepsis

Profession Novelist

The novelist Guillermo Cabrera Infante died at the age of 75. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Remembered best for his 1967 novel Tres Tristes Tigres, Infante was the 1997 recipient of the prestigious Premio Cervantes. Also a screenwriter and journalist, he co-wrote the screenplay for Vanishing Point and, for a time, headed a Communist literary publication known as Lunes de Revolucion.

He grew up in Gibara and Havana, Cuba as the son of Cuban Communist Party leaders. His first marriage, to Marta Calvo, resulted in daughters named Ana and Carola; he later married actress Miriam Gomez.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, outspoken critic of Cuban leader Fidel Castro and one of the most original voices in modern Spanish-language literature, has died in London. He was 75. A spokeswoman for his literary agent, Balcells, announced this morning that the writer died in hospital yesterday from septicaemia.

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That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.

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You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.

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I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips.

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A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

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American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante Death Cause and Date