Map Drawn by a Spy by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Author:Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 2017-08-28T16:00:00+00:00

PERSONALITIES MENTIONED IN THE TEXT

ACEVEDO, MIRIAM (1928-2013)

Actress once married to Oscar Hurtado who left Cuba in 1968 for Italy under a work permit and did not return. She died in exile in Rome.

AGÜERO, LUIS (1937)

Writer and film critic, husband of Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s sister-in-law Sara Calvo. He lives in Miami.

ALONSO, ALBERTO (1917-2007)

Dancer and choreographer. He died in exile.

ALONSO, LUIS RICARDO (1929-2015)

Writer and Cuba’s ambassador in London in the 1960s. Born in Asturias of a Spanish father and a Cuban mother. In 1965 he went into exile in the United States.

ALONSO, MARITZA

Spaniard resident in Cuba. Artists’ agent and organizer of cultural events, she represented Sara Montiel, among others. She invited Guillermo Cabrera Infante to give a series of lectures at the Fine Arts Palace, which were published as Arcadia todas las noches.

ÁLVAREZ RÍOS, RENÉ

University professor.

ANDREU, OLGA (1930-1988)

Old friend of Guillermo Cabrera Infante and first wife of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. She committed suicide.

ARCOCHA, JUAN (1927-2010)

Writer, journalist, and friend of Guillermo Cabrera Infante. Fluent in French and Russian, he served as interpreter for Fidel Castro on many occasions. In 1971 he went into exile, and in 2010 he died in Paris.

ARCOS, GUSTAVO (1926-2006)

Cuba’s ambassador in Brussels and veteran of the attack on the Moncada Barracks. He was jailed in 1966 and died in Cuba.

ARENAL, HUMBERTO (1926-2012)

Writer and theater director who since 1948 lived in New York and visited Cuba regularly. After the Revolution, he returned to Cuba at Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s urging and remained there for the rest of his life.

ARRUFAT, ANTÓN (1935)

Writer and dramaturge long sidelined for being a homosexual. He lives in Cuba.

AYÓN, FELITO

Cultural activist and owner of the club El Gato Tuerto. Friend of intellectuals and artists.

BARRAL, CARLOS (1928-1989)

Spanish poet and editor at the Barcelona publishing house Seix Barral when Guillermo Cabrera Infante won the Biblioteca Breve prize.

BATISTA, FULGENCIO (1901-1973)

Cuban dictator. He was president of Cuba 1940-1944 and 1952-1959.

BLANCO, JUAN (1919-2008)

Composer of classical music, lawyer, and former brother-in-law of Guillermo Cabrera Infante (married to Ivonne Calvo, the sister of Cabrera Infante’s first wife). Blanco got the writer out of jail when he was detained on obscenity charges.

BOLA DE NIEVE (see Villa, Ignacio)

BORREGO, ORLANDO (1936)

Writer who participated in the guerrilla struggle with Che Guevara. During the period of the book he was sugar minister.

BOUMEDIENE, HOUARI (1932-1978)

President of Algeria 1965-1978.

CABRERA, MARICUSA (1937-?)

Dancer of popular music, married to Silvano Suárez, a friend of Guillermo Cabrera Infante. She died in Cuba.

CABRERA INFANTE, ALBERTO (SABÁ) (1933-2002)

Younger brother of Guillermo Cabrera Infante. Cineaste, co-creator with Orlando Jiménez Leal of the short film PM. In 1965 he sought political asylum in Rome and in 1966 he moved to New York. He died in the United States a few years before Guillermo Cabrera Infante.

CALVO, MARTA

First wife of Guillermo Cabrera Infante, mother of his daughters, Anita and Carolita, and sister of Sara and Ivonne.

CAMEJO, CARUCHA AND PEPE (brothers)

Celebrated puppeteers who founded the puppeteer movement in Cuba.

CARBONELL, “EL VIEJO”

Father of Pipo Carbonell. Union activist before and after the Revolution.

CARBONELL, LUIS (1923)

Reciter of what he called “Antillean Poetry.”

CARBONELL, PIPO

Cuban diplomat, third secretary of the Cuban Embassy in Belgium, a post he obtained through the efforts of Gustavo Arcos.

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