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Guillermo Cabrera Infante

1929 - 2005

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡiˈʎeɾmo kaˈβɾeɾajɱˈfante]; Gibara, 22 April 1929 – 21 February 2005) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, screenwriter, and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín, and used Guillermo Cain for the screenplay of the cult classic film Vanishing Point (1971). A one-time supporter of the politics of Fidel Castro, Cabrera Infante went into exile to London in 1965. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guillermo Cabrera Infante has received more than 127,782 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Guillermo Cabrera Infante is the 2,444th most popular writer (down from 2,391st in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Cuba (down from 48th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Cuban Writer.

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  • 28

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  • 4.58

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Guillermo Cabrera Infante ranks 2,444 out of 5,755Before him are Dacia Maraini, Margit Sandemo, Amélie Nothomb, John Cleland, John Fletcher, and Peter of Dusburg. After him are Carmen Laforet, Immanuel Velikovsky, A. S. Byatt, Champfleury, Jovan Dučić, and Tadeusz Różewicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Guillermo Cabrera Infante ranks 176Before him are Josef Suk, Elio Petri, Camilo Torres Restrepo, Hal Ashby, Arnold Palmer, and Gaston Glock. After him are James Hong, Andre Gunder Frank, Rafael Eitan, Nargis, Peter Yates, and Aleksandra Pakhmutova. Among people deceased in 2005, Guillermo Cabrera Infante ranks 101Before him are Johnny Carson, Edward Bunker, Amrita Pritam, Henry Taube, Teresa Wright, and Vasco Gonçalves. After him are Kocheril R. Narayanan, John Mills, Andre Gunder Frank, George P. Cosmatos, Ghena Dimitrova, and Maurice Hilleman.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Guillermo Cabrera Infante ranks 53 out of 248Before him are Manuel Urrutia Lleó (1901), Steven Bauer (1956), Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (1942), Juanita Castro (1933), Arnaldo Ochoa (1930), and Dámaso Berenguer (1873). After him are Mongo Santamaría (1917), Silvio Rodríguez (1946), Carlos Finlay (1833), Desi Arnaz (1917), Alberto Bayo (1892), and Félix Rodríguez (1941).

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Among WRITERS In Cuba

Among writers born in Cuba, Guillermo Cabrera Infante ranks 7Before him are Italo Calvino (1923), José Martí (1853), Paul Lafargue (1842), Reinaldo Arenas (1943), Nicolás Guillén (1902), and José-Maria de Heredia (1842). After him are José Lezama Lima (1910), Leonardo Padura Fuentes (1955), Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (1950), Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814), José María Heredia y Heredia (1803), and Dulce María Loynaz (1902).