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Eduardo Manet

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Eduardo Manet

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1930-06-19 (Santiago de Cuba)
Nationality
Cuba
Languages
French
Residence History
Santiago de Cuba (birth) → Paris and Italy (1950s) → Cuba (1960, National Theater of Cuba) → Paris (since 1968)

Career

Occupations
novelist, playwright
Active Years
1969-2024
Affiliations
National Theater of Cuba

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Les Nonnes / The Nuns

1969 play
Translations
  • English (The Nuns, 1970)

Eux; ou, La prise du pouvoir

1971 novel

L'île du lézard vert

1992 novel

Rhapsodie cubaine

1996 novel

D'amour et d'exil

1999 novel

La sagesse du singe

2001 novel

Maestro!

2002 novel

Mes années Cuba

2004 novel

Ma vie de Jésus

2005 novel

Bibliography

  • Les Nonnes
  • Eux; ou, La prise du pouvoir
  • L'île du lézard vert
  • Rhapsodie cubaine
  • D'amour et d'exil
  • La sagesse du singe
  • Maestro!
  • Mes années Cuba
  • Ma vie de Jésus

Legacy

Cuban-born novelist and playwright writing in French. His work has been translated into over 20 languages. He returned to Paris after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Trivia

  • His work has been translated into over 20 languages.