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1922
Heroine of the Moncada Garrison Attack Haydée Santamaría Cuadrado was born.
30 de Diciembre de 1922
She was born in Constancia sugar mill, Villa Clara Province, in December 30th, 1922 and died in July 28th, 1980, in Havana City. One of the heroins of the Moncada Garrison Attack, founder and promoter of Casa de las Américas and of the New Trova Movement. Her remains lies in the Pantheon of the Martyrs at the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery, in Santiago de Cuba.
In 1959 she settled the Casa de las Américas, the most important regional cultural entity, presided by her until she died, and to which great Latin American and Caribbean writers like: Pablo Neruda, Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Mario Benedetti, Carlos Fuentes, Jorge Zalamea, Eduardo Galeano and Juan Gelman, among others, were attracted. With Haydée Santamaría, Latin American writers and artists discovered a common house, a “free territory”, to produce their best. She created the Casa de las Américas Literary Award.
Haydée has become one of the idols of Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés and Noel Nicola among other trovadores, because she was able to represent the fair and serenity of the Cuban Revolution esence. Haydée passed away, but she left intact a worthy legacy, personally synthetized by her and transmitted to those who surrounded her.
1931
Intellectual Noel Navarro was born.
30 de Diciembre de 1931
He was born in Manacas in December 30th, 1931 and died in August 12th, 2003. His literary work began in Camagüey in the 1950´s, where he also linked to the July 26th, Revolutionary Movement. Then he has already published his story "El hombre y el perro" in Carteles magazine in 1955, plus other stories and chronicles in local diaries and magazines, and in his archives are kept several unedited novels.
In 1960 he was one of the organizers of the First Meeting of Intellectuals supporting the Cuban Revolution, held in Camagüey. Also in 1961 he participated in the First Congress of Writers and Artists and in the constitution of the UNEAC. Ediciones R awarded his novel Los días de nuestra angustia, he won the Ediciones Granma Award, in 1967, with his novel Los caminos de la noche, a mention in the UNEAC´s Cirilo Villaverde contest with El plano inclinado, whose award was conferred to him in the 1970 summon by Zona de silencio. He won the Casa de las Américas Award with his best collection of stories, La huella del pulgar and the Dolores Medio Narrative Award, from Asturias, Spain, by El asedio. He published a dozen of novels, two volumes of stories, dozens of essays, studies and prologues. Also hundred of articles, chronicles and reviews. Among his unedited materials there was, at least, a poem book, and in the 1970´s he wrote for the MINAZ (Ministry of Sugar Industry of Cuba) eight volumes on the complex Cuban sugar process that were never published, but that effort allowed him to write his awarded testimony Vida de Marcial Ponce. Some of his works were made public in Eastern Europe, Japan and China, as well as in Arab countries.
Journalist, settler of the UPEC, among other functions he was vicedirector and director of "Revolución y Cultura" magazine; Literature Vicepresident of UNEAC (Association of Writers and Artists of Cuba) from 1977 to 1988.
1984
Singer Moraima Secada died
30 de Diciembre de 1984
She was born in Santa Clara in September 10th, 1930 and died in December 30th, 1984. Began singing in the ladies´orchestra Anacaona. Later she joined the D´Aida quarter, togetehr with Elena Burke, Omara and Haydée Portuondo. She also joined the Memé Solís quartet.
From the 1960´s she develops an outstanding labour as soloist, singing a repertorire of romantic songs, specially feeling style, being one of its earliest cultivators.
She performed in radio, television and theatre, and recorded numerous LD and singles. She toured along different countries.
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