Severo Sarduy

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Severo Sarduy (Camagüey, Cuba; February 25, 1937 - Paris; June 8, 1993) was a Cuban poet, author, playwright, and critic of Cuban literature and art.

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Sarduy went to the equivalent of high school in Camagüey and in 1956 moved to Havana, where he began a study of medicine. With the triumph of the Cuban revolution he collaborated with the Diario libre and Lunes de revolución, pro-marxist papers. In 1960 he traveled to Paris to study at the Ecole du Louvre. There he was connected to the group of intellectuals who produced the magazine Tel Quel and worked as a reader for Editions du Seuil and as editor of the Radiotelevisión francesa. In 1972 his novel Cobra won him the Medici Prize. During his lifetime, he did not tell the public that he was homosexual. He died due to complications from AIDS.