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.