Enrique Labrador Ruiz

Enrique Labrador Ruiz
Born May 11, 1902
Sagua la Grande, Cuba
Died November 10, 1991(1991-11-10) (aged 89)
Miami, Florida
Nationality Cuban
Occupation Journalist, novelist, essayist, poet
Spouse(s) María (Cheché)
Awards Hernández Catá Prize (1946)
Premio Nacional de Literatura (1950)

Enrique Labrador Ruiz (May 11, 1902 – November 10, 1991) was a Cuban journalist, novelist, essayist, short story writer, and poet.

Biography

Enrique Labrador Ruiz, Cuban journalist, novelist, essayist, short story writer, and poet, was born in Sagua la Grande, Cuba, on May 11, 1902. He was a member of the Academia Cubana de la Lengua and also of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española. Labrador Ruiz was a well-learned and traveled man who created his own style of writing novels, which he called gaseiforme. In 1933, he published his first novel in this style, El laberinto de sí mismo, which forms a trilogy with Cresival (1936) and Anteo (Novela gaseiforme) (1940). With his collection of short stories, El gallo en el espejo (1953), he established his cuentería cubiche style.[1]

In 1976, Labrador Ruiz and his wife María (Cheché) were exiled from Cuba. After residing in Spain and Venezuela, they moved to and maintained their permanent residence in Miami, Florida. During his years of exile, Labrador Ruiz wrote for many literary journals and newspapers, including Réplica (Miami), El Diario de Caracas, and Linden Lane Magazine.[1]

Enrique Labrador Ruiz received numerous awards and honors for his works of literature. In Cuba, Conejito Ulán won the Hernández Catá Prize in 1946, and in 1950 his novel Sangre hambrienta won the Premio Nacional de Literatura. Some of his most important works are: El gallo en el espejo (1953), El pan de los muertos (1958), and his final work, Cartas a la carte (1991).[1]

Enrique Labrador Ruiz died in Miami on November 10, 1991.[1]

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Notes and references

  1. 1 2 3 4 Finding aid author: Arabelis Ureña; edited by Esperanza B. de Varona, April 1995; Updated by María R. Estorino, March 2002 (1995, 2002). "Guide to the Enrique Labrador Ruiz papers". Prepared for the University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, FL. Retrieved November 7, 2014. This article incorporates text from this source, which has been released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 and GNU Free Documentation license.

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