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1893
Poetress MarÃa Luisa Milanés was born.
15 de Julio de 1893
She was born in JiguanÃ, on July 15th, 1893 and died in Bayamo, on October 9th, 1919. Being a teenager she began writing, but her most creative stage goes from 1912 to 1919. Postmodernist; the idea of death constitutes almost its only poetic theme, although she also scopes on nostalgy for childhood and political or patriotic sense, in a lesser degree. She was a woman in contradiction, facing unequalitites and injustices imposed to feminine sex by burgeoise conceptions. She made several translations from French and English poets. She wrote under the pseudonym of Liana de Lux. One of the most authentic temperaments in Cuban poetry. In 1920 Orto magazine published her poems.
1900
Writer and journalist Enrique Serpa was born.
15 de Julio de 1900
He was born on July 15th, 1900 and died on December 2nd, 1968. He began working since his childhood. He was apprentice of shoemaker and of typographer and worked as delivery-boy of a laundry. (1913-1916). In 1918 he moved to Matanzas, where he worked as sugar cane weighter and, later, clerk in the sugar mill office. Back to Havana he worked in Dr. Fernando Ortiz’office, together with Rubén MartÃnez Villena (1920-1921). He was one of the participants at the Café Martà conversations and one of the so-called Grupo Minorista. Chief of correspondents and of information of El Mundo newspaper, literary director of Chic and editor of Excelsior, he collaborated with Cuba Contemporánea, Revista Bimestre Cubana, Gaceta del Caribe, Castalia, Luz, Futuro Social, El FÃgaro, Social, Carteles, Bohemia. From 1952 to 1959 he settled in Paris, where he worked as press attaché of the Cuban Embassy to France. After having returned to Cuba in 1959, he collaborated in El Mundo, Bohemia, Mar y Pesca, Unión. His story book Historias del juez was left unedited.
First Prize of Poetry in the contest summoned in 1925 by the Diario de la Marina. National Award on Novel by his work Contrabando in 1938. Award on Report conferred by the Ministry of Education in 1936, 1938 and 1939 by his works Raid Habana-Santiago, Oro en Isla de Pinos and Fracasará la Revolución en México. On a trip to Mexico he wrote for El PaÃs newspaper and was decorated with the Aztec Eagle. In 1946 the Varona Award was conferred to him. Among his works are: La miel de las horas, Felisa y yo, Noche de fiesta, Aletas de tiburón and La trampa.
1934
Pianist Enriqueta Almanza was born.
15 de Julio de 1934
She was born in Havana, in July 15th, 1934. Accompanist Pianist on popular music. Her professional debut took place in the RHC Cadena Azul broadcasting, in 1948. She has made children music, and, besides, for theatre and ballet. From 1955 to 1957 she was settled in Europe (Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland and Germany). In 1965 she joined the Music Hall of Cuba, which toured to France, Poland, the formers German Democratic Republic and Soviet Union.
1951
Journalist, tipographer, proofreader and editor MarÃa Luisa Acosta Hernández was born.
15 de Julio de 1951
Journalist, tipographer, profreader and editor. She was born in July 15th, 1951. More than 25 years working in book sector. She has edited around 50 titles from science and technique, having made additional texts, researches, bibliographical confrontations and compilations for them. She edited part of the cuisine work by Nitza Villapol published in Cuba, as well as scientific and technical texts by reputed personalities as Orfilio Peláez, Carlos Millares Cao, Alcides Sagarra, Rolando Crespo, Severo Nieto Fernández. She was member of the jury for the Pinos Nuevos 2000 collection on scientifical-technical dissemination. She has participated on different activities related with text edition: cycle of lectures to specialists from publishing sector, courses on increasement and training for editors, postdegrees on graphic design, Ibero American workshop on book, publisher´s debates on scientific-technical publishings, computing courses, English, marketing, social communication, international meeting on book within the Caribbean environment (as speaker), diploma course on publishing production, among others.
1992
Novelist, painter, journalist Samuel Feijóo died.
15 de Julio de 1992
He was born in San Juan de los Yeras, Ranchuelo, Villa Clara in March 31st, 1914 and died in Havana in July 15th, 1992. He was novelist, painter, journalist, poet, folklorist, settler, director and editor of Islas and Signos magazines. At the age of 15 he published his earliest folkloric tales in Billiken. Havana weekly magazine.
In the 1940´s and 1950´s he wrote many reports on current events in Bohemia magazine truthfully depicting the Cuban situation. He published more than 100 titles and his wide work is known abroad, because most of them are still edited in several languages, so he is considered one of the XX Century culture top personalities.
Among his works are: Libros de apuntes, Faz, Diario abierto, Juan QuinquÃn en Pueblo Mocho, Azar de lecturas, MitologÃa Americana, Pleno dÃa a pleno sol, Del Piropo al Dicharacho.
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