Roberto Fernández Retamar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Roberto Fernández Retamar

Cuban politician and writer

Date of Birth: 09-Jun-1930

Place of Birth: Havana, Havana Province, Cuba

Date of Death: 20-Jul-2019

Profession: poet, politician, literary critic, essayist, cultural activist

Nationality: Cuba

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Roberto Fernández Retamar (9 June 1930 – 20 July 2019, Havana) was a Cuban poet, essayist, literary critic and President of the Casa de las Américas.
In his role as President of the organization, Fernández also served on the Council of State of Cuba.
An early close confidant of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, he was a central figure in Cuba from the 1959 Revolution until his death in 2019.
Fernández also wrote over a dozen major collections of verse and founded the Casa de las Americas cultural magazine. Professor Joao Cesar Castro de Rocha, at the University of Manchester has described Retamar as "one of the most distinguished Latin American intellectuals of the twentieth century." In 1989, he was awarded the National Prize for Literature, Cuba's national literary award and most important award of its type.