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==Description==
 
==Description==
  
Poet, novelist, most notably 'Before Night Falls',  a New York Times bestseller and made into a movie in 2000.  Rebelled against the Castro government due to his homosexuality, lived in prison from 1974-76, and escaped to the US in 1980.  Author of the novel 'Farewell to the Sea' (1985) which was written during his prison time.  Died of AIDS.
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Poet, novelist, most notably 'Before Night Falls' (his autobiography),  a New York Times bestseller and made into a movie in 2000.  Rebelled against the Castro government due to his homosexuality, lived in prison from 1974-76, and escaped to the US in 1980.  Author of the novel 'Farewell to the Sea' (1985) which was written during his prison time.  Died of AIDS.
  
 
==Further Reading/Research==
 
==Further Reading/Research==

Latest revision as of 18:18, 10 August 2014

Reinaldo Arenas

Country

Cuba

Birth - Death

1943 - 1990

Occupation

Writer

Description

Poet, novelist, most notably 'Before Night Falls' (his autobiography), a New York Times bestseller and made into a movie in 2000. Rebelled against the Castro government due to his homosexuality, lived in prison from 1974-76, and escaped to the US in 1980. Author of the novel 'Farewell to the Sea' (1985) which was written during his prison time. Died of AIDS.

Further Reading/Research


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