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The writer, professor, and journalist Julio Travieso Serrano, National Literature Prize 2021, passed away on the night of Saturday, November 1, in Havana, at the age of 85, according to a statement from the Cuban Book Institute shared on its Facebook profile.
Born in the Cuban capital on April 11, 1940, Travieso studied Law at the University of Havana and earned a master's degree in Sciences from Lomonosov Moscow State University.
In 1985, he earned the title of Doctor of Economics from the Institute of Latin America of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.
His career encompassed university teaching in Cuba, Spain, Russia, and Mexico, as well as a prolific journalistic endeavor.
Member of the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (Uneac), he published essential titles of contemporary Cuban narrative such as To Kill the Wolf (1971), When the Night Dies (1981), The Dust and the Gold (1996), It Rains Over Havana (2004), and The Messenger (2010).
According to the platform Claustrofobias, Promociones Literarias, his narrative work, consisting of several short story collections and various novels, “has successfully and intelligently addressed various issues of man and his world. His clean, simple, and transparent prose is an effective instrument for a narrative discourse of undeniable significance in the context of contemporary Cuban literature.”
His work earned him accolades such as the Mazatlán Literary Prize in Mexico and the Literary Criticism Award in Cuba. In 2021, he received the National Literature Prize for the significance of his legacy.
In the political sphere, he was awarded the Medal of Combatant of the Clandestine Struggle, the Distinction for National Culture, and the Alexander Pushkin Order, granted by the Russian state.
By family decision, her body will be cremated and honored in an intimate ceremony, the statement specified.
The Ministry of Culture and Uneac expressed their condolences to family, friends, and readers.
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