Eduardo Manet

Cuban writer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroCuban writer
PlacesCuba France
isWriter Playwright Screenwriter
Work fieldFilm, TV, Stage & Radio Literature
Gender
Male
Birth19 June 1930, Santiago de Cuba, Santiago de Cuba Province, Cuba
Age94 years
The details

Biography

Eduardo Manet (born 19 June 1930) is a Cuban-born novelist and playwright writing in French. His work has been translated into over 20 languages.

Life

Born in Santiago de Cuba, Manet lived in Paris and Italy in the 1950s. In 1960 he returned to Cuba, becoming director of the National Dramatic Ensemble at the National Theater of Cuba. After Fidel Castro supported the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Manet returned to Paris, where he has lived subsequently.

Works

  • Les Nonnes, 1969. by Robert Baldick as The nuns, 1970
  • Eux; ou, La prise du pouvoir, 1971.
  • L'île du lézard vert: roman, 1992.
  • Rhapsodie cubaine: roman, 1996.
  • D'amour et d'exil: roman, 1999.
  • La sagesse du singe: roman, 2001.
  • Maestro!: roman, 2002.
  • Mes années Cuba, 2004.
  • Ma vie de Jésus: roman, 2005.
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