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Severo Sarduy

セベロ・サルドゥイ

Sebero Sarudui

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1937-02-25 （Camagüey, Cuba）
Died
1993-06-08 （Paris, France） age 56
Nationality
Cuban
Languages
Spanish, French
Residence History
Camagüey, Cuba → Havana, Cuba → Paris, France

Career

Occupations
Poet, Author, Playwright, Literary critic, Art critic
Active Years
1963-1993
Affiliations
Editions du Seuil, Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française, Tel Quel

Education

University of Havana
Medicine
Period: 1956-
Country: Cuba
Began studying medicine

Awards

Prix Médicis
1972
Work: Cobra
Category: best novel in translation
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Gestos

1963 Novel

Early novel

Experimentalism

De dónde son los cantantes

1967 Novel

Experimental novel from Cuba

HomosexualityTransvestism
Translations
  • From Cuba with a Song

Cobra

1972 Novel

Baroque-style innovative novel

BaroqueTransformation
Translations
  • Cobra

Maitreya

1978 Novel

Colibrí

1984 Novel

Pájaros de la playa

1993 Novel

Autobiographical novel, completed just before death

Translations
  • Beach Birds

Bibliography

  • Gestos (1963)
  • De dónde son los cantantes (1967)
  • Cobra (1972)
  • Maitreya (1978)
  • Colibrí (1984)
  • Cocuyo (1990)
  • Pájaros de la playa (1993)

Translations of Works

  • From Cuba with a Song
  • Cobra
  • Maitreya
  • Firefly
  • Beach Birds

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Neo-baroqueExperimentalBaroque narration
Recurring Motifs
HomosexualityTransvestismTransformationCuban culture

Health

  • AIDS
    晩年
    Died from complications

Legacy

Brilliant baroque narrator in Spanish, great poet, secret painter with retrospective at Reina Sofía. Works hard to access in Cuba

Museums

  • Reina Sofía Museum Madrid, Spain

Trivia

  • Born to working-class family of Spanish, African, Chinese heritage
  • Moved to Paris after Cuban Revolution, never returned