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1909
Exceptional performer of punto cubano Justo Vega was born.
09 de Agosto de 1909
He was born in San Antonio de Cabezas, Matanzas province, in August 9th, 1909 and died in January 13th,1993. Being very young he was attracted by singing, anda t the age of 15 he moved to Havana. In 1934 he began working in the radio with the Trovadores Cubanos quartet. For many long years he cultivated the décima guajira (ten-verse stanza sung by Cuban peasantry) and share those controversias –which became famous- with another great artist of the punto cubano: Adolfo Alfonso. Justo Vega was founder and outstanding figure of the TV program Palmas y Cañas, and took part in Cuban and Latin American music festivals.
1976
Writer José Lezama Lima died.
09 de Agosto de 1976
He was born in Havana, on December 19th, 1910 and died in that city on August 9th, 1976.
José Lezama Lima, considered one of the most important writers of XX Century Spanish language.
The appearence of his poem “Muerte de Narciso” ("Narcissus´Death") meant a landmark in Cuban literary context because of the renewal of its formal and conceptual propossal. Other poems, compiled in the books "Enemigo Rumor", "Aventuras Sigilosas", "La fijeza", "Dador", Excerpts to his "Imán" and other texts published before and after his death; the novels "Paradiso" and "Oppiano Licario" (unfinished because of his death) arose after the aforementioned; a group of 103 works including essays, chronicles and others published in the books: "Analecta del Reloj", "La Expresión Americana", "Tratados de La Habana", "La Cantidad Hechizada"; his stories “Fugados”, “El Patio Morado”, “Para un Final Presto”, “Juego de las Decapitaciones” and “Cangrejos, Golondrinas”, previously published in magazines and anthologies, were compiled, for the first time, in 1987.
He collaborated in the magazines: "Verbum", "Espuela de Plata", "Nadie Parecía", "Lunes de Revolución", "La Gaceta de Cuba", "El Caimán Barbudo", "Casa de las Américas", "Cuba Internacional" and he settled "Orígenes", the most fruitful endeavour made by him in publishing labour. Works by personalities such as: Juan Ramón Jiménez, María Zambrano, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Elliot, beside home writers whose work consolidated and got strength in those years: Eliseo Diego, Cintio Vitier, Fina García Marruz, Lorenzo García Vega, Angel Gaztelu, Virgilio Piñera, appeared there in black and white.
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