Jesus Diaz
Jesús Díaz Rodríguez was born the October 7th 1941 with Havana, died the May 3rd 2002. Wire of a modest expert in pharmacy, he sees himself obliged to work like clerk-traveller in medicine, which does not prevent it following courses to the elementary school and from passing its baccalaureat of Letters to the Institute of Secondary education of Havana. Little by little, it takes an active part in political activities since it is built-in the fight active coed against Fulgencio Batista, which obliges it to give up its secondary studies temporarily. During the guerilla carried out in the Sierra Maestra, it obtains the rank of captain of the Rebellious Army. With the triumph of the Revolution in 1959, it turns over to its studies and, once established, it is incorporated in the School of Philosophy and the Letters of the University of Havana. In 1961, it takes part in the fight carried out against the counter-revolutionaries ( bandidos ) in the Sierra del Escambray ( Las Villas ). It was raises in international policy in a course exempted by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (1961-1962). In 1962, during the " crisis of octobre" , it is mobilized with the head of a company of militiamans then it works with the Latin America section of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with People (I.C.A.P.) and of 1963 to 1971, it teaches as a professor of philosophy at the University of Havana. After having directed the cultural page of the daily newspaper Juventud Rebelde in 1965-1966, it creates the monthly literary supplement of this newspaper, El Caimán Barbudo , which it directs in its beginnings (1966-1967). Carrying out face its literary activities and its cinematographic activities, its vocation of writer appears by his culture of the narration.
In 1966, it is made known like young storyteller of the new generation of writers post-revolutionists thanks to its tales inspired of its combat, gathered under the title Los Años duros . Work obtains the price of the tale decreed by the annual contest Casa of mow Américas and, so it is published initially in ten thousand specimens and is translated into Russian and French. Based on one of the tales of the book, it carries out its first play, Unos hombres there otros , assembled for the first time in the room " El Sótano" the same year by Lilian Llerena and resumption in 1969 by Sergio Corrieri and the group Escambray Theater. The part obtains the first price of the Latin-American Festival of theater. For the same period, he is member of the editorial board of the theoretical review of social sciences, Pensamiento Crítico (1967-1971).
In 1967, it takes part in the acts commemorative of the fiftieth birthday of the Russian Révolution, invited by the Union of the Soviet Writers and assists, in 1968, with Cultural Conger of Havana. This same year, it becomes militant Communist party of Cuba. He travelled to Puerto Rico, the Canada and the Chile in 1971 and collaborated in various cultural publications: Put of mow Américas , Bohemia , OCLAE (Cuba), Rosa Blindada (Argentinian), Partisans , the French Letters (France).
In 1971, it creates another play, Ustedes tienen palavered it, whose argument and scenario were carried to the cinema by Manuel Octavio Gómez in 1973. The inspiration of the playwright joined that of the scenario writer, member of the Cuban Institute of Art and Cinema industry (I.C.A.I.C.). In 1978, its documentary film 55 hermanos obtains the Money Dove to the Festival of Leipzig (Germany). The set of themes of film is the same one as that of its apologetic book, Of the patria there el exilio , with the significant title, which was worth with the author to gain the price of testimony " Pablo of Torriente Brau" union of the Writers and Artists of Cuba: the author questions the young people of the Brigade Antonio Maceo, come to visit Cuba after a few eighteen years of exile.
In 1978, it writes another collection of news, Canto of amor there of will guerra , also gains the price of Criticism and that of the Association of Colombian Scenario writers to the Festival of Cartagène and is invited to take part in the Week of the Critic of the Cannes festival in 1979.
Jesús Díaz is made known in the current cinematographic world thanks to Polvo rojo (1981) and Lejanía (1985) and worked as a scenario writer in Cuba, in Mexico, in Colombia, in Spain and Germany. In 1987, is published in Madrid Las Iniciales of will tierra , internationally acclaimed like the large critical novel of the Revolution . In 1989, it publishes a short novel entitled Dígale that sí knew niño .
In 1992, it publishes in Barcelona Las Palavered perdidas , Romance finalist of the Nadal Price, and makes known with Zurich its test, " Los anillos of the serpiente" , reproduced in various newspapers of Europe and America and condemning it to the exile. Its literary production was translated into German, French, Swedish, Dutch, Greek and Russian. Its novel Piel will máscara it there was written and published initially in Berlin whereas it profited from a purse. Living in Madrid since its exile, where he is professor at the School of the Letters, he directs a new review which he founded in 1996, Encuentro of will cultura cubana , and teaches the cinema in Berlin and Rome. Jesús Díaz, in particular, gave courses to the Academy of Cinema and Television of Berlin (D.F.F.B.). It also publishes Dime algo sober Cuba in 1998, Siberiana in 2000 and Las cuatro fugas of Handbook in 2002. Jesús Díaz is deceased of sudden death the May 3rd 2002.
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External bonds
- Approach of the work of Jesus Diaz (Cuba) - Marc Guiblin
- active Bibliography and passivates on Jesus Diaz
- cuban Littérature