Arturo Arango

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Arturo Arango (* 1955 in Manzanillo , Cuba ) is a Cuban writer.

Arango studied at the University of Havana and, after successfully completing this, got a job at the Casa de las Américas cultural institute . In 1989 he was appointed director of this institution and as such he was also editor-in-chief of the "Revista de Casa de las Américas" until 1991. Since 1995 he has been working for the art and literary magazine "La Gaceta de Cuba" published by the national artists ' association UNEAC , and in 1996 he became the deputy editor-in-chief.

Between 1985 and 1996 he took part in several scriptwriting workshops at the state film institute ICAIC . Three of his scripts were filmed by director Juan Carlos Tabío from 2000 onwards . Since 2006 he has been head of the scriptwriting department at the International Film and Television Academy EICTV .

Arango belongs to the "G-20" group of originally twenty Cuban filmmakers who, since May 2014, have been publicly calling for the passage of a film law that takes into account the interests of the film industry, which was previously represented exclusively by the ICAIC.

Honors

  • 2008 - Premio de Dramaturgia for "El viaje termina en Elsinor"

Works (selection)

stories
  • Bola, bandera y gallardete .
  • La Habana elegant . 2nd edition Havana 2000.
  • La vida es una semana . 1989.
Novels
  • Una lección de anatomía . Letras Cubanas, Havana 1998.
  • El libro de la realidad . Tusquets, Havana 2001.
  • Muerte de nadie Tusquets, Havana 2004.
Plays
  • El viaje termina en Ensinor . Havana 2007.
Film scripts
  • Cuban Travel , 2000
  • Aunque estés lejos , 2003
  • El cuerno de la abundancia , 2008

literature

  • Aarón Alboukrek u. a .: Diccinario de escritores hispanoamericanos. Del siglo XVI al XX . Larousse, Madrid 1991, ISBN 970-607-038-9 .
  • Klaus Müller-Bergh u. a .: Vanguardia latinoamericana. Historia, crítica y documentos, vol. 3 . Vervuert publishing house, Frankfurt / M. 2004, ISBN 3-89354-464-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ley de Cine, cada vez más cerca. In: Diario de Cuba of January 8, 2015, accessed on May 20, 2015 (Spanish)
personal data
SURNAME Arango, Arturo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Manzanillo (Cuba)