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Reinaldo Arenas
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Cuban poet/novelist/playwright (1943–1990)
OverviewAI-generated
Reinaldo Arenas Fuentes was a Cuban writer, poet, playwright, and librarian who worked from 1967 until his death. He wrote in Spanish and English. His notable work includes *Before Night Falls*. Arenas received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was convicted of dissidence.
Arenas died on December 7, 1990, in New York City. The cause of death was a drug overdose, and the manner of death was suicide. He was born on July 16, 1943.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1943
- Died
- 1990
- Works
- 93
Top works
- Exhibition Drawings and Paintings By Gladys Triana
- Le Palais des très blanches mouffettes
- El portero
- PORTERO, EL (Spanish Edition)
- Singing from the Well
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Cuzco, Peru
Reynaldo Arenas Horna (born August 16, 1944) is a renowned Peruvian actor in theatre, film, and television.
Known for
- The Daughter of the Moon — Remigio2026
- The Legend of the Last Inca — Túpac Amaru II2025
- Tattoos in Memory2024
- A Giant Adventure — Guardián Mono / Supay2023
- Fico García — Actor2021
- Unidos en un solo puño2021
- Wake Show — Rodolfo2020
- Psychotria — Sabio2019
- Friends in a hurry — Preacher2018
- Rencores2017
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- Reinaldo Arenas Fuentes , July 16, 1943 , Aguas Claras , Holguín Province , Cuba
- Died
- December 7, 1990 (1990-12-07) (aged 47) , Hell's Kitchen , New York, United States
- Occupation
- Writer
- Period
- 1966–1990
- Genre
- poetry , novel , drama
- Notable works
- Pentagonia , Before Night Falls
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Reinaldo
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Cuba
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- novelist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Spanish
- Notable work
- Before Night Falls
- Convicted of
- dissidence
Show 8 more facts
- date of death
- 1990-12-07
- date of birth
- 1943-07-16
- manner of death
- Suicide
- birth name
- Reinaldo Arenas Fuentes
- end of work period
- 1990-12-07
- start of work period
- 1967-00-00
- cause of death
- drug overdose
- writing language
- Spanish
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
6 objects attributed to Reinaldo Arenas, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Reinaldo Arenas (July 16, 1943 – December 7, 1990) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who is known as a vocal critic of Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution, and the Cuban government. His memoir of the Cuban dissident movement and of being a political prisoner, Before Night Falls, was dictated after his escape to the United States during the 1980 Mariel boatlift and published posthumously. Arenas, who was dying of AIDS, killed himself in 1990.
Life
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