Ernesto Juan Castellanos
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Ernesto Juan Castellanos, born in 1963, is a freelance author, translator and journalist who lives and works in Havana, Cuba. In 1996, he started organizing the Cuban Beatles conventions, which opened doors to the world of writing. Castellanos has since written and published four books as well as a number of stories for newspapers and magazines in both Cuba and abroad.
Castellanos has a university degree in English and works variously as a translator and interpreter, in film and live music production management, and as a fixer and production manager for international radio and film crews and bands working in Cuba, most notably the BBC (Michael Palin, Steve Leonard, Rhod Sharp), the Manic Street Preachers, Asian Dub Foundation, Audioslave, and Simply Red.
[edit] Non-fiction books published in Cuba
- Los Beatles en Cuba: Un viaje mágico y misterioso (Ediciones Unión, Havana, 1997)
- El sargento Pimienta vino a Cuba en un submarino amarillo (Letras Cubanas, Havana, 2000)
- La guerra se acaba –si tú quieres (Ediciones Extramuros, Havana, 2001)
- John Lennon en La Habana with a little help from my friends (Ediciones Unión, Havana, 2005)