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Miguel Barnet
AuthorBooks · Second handSince 1940
Miguel Ángel Barnet Lanza is a Cuban writer, novelist and ethnographer. Known as an expert on Afro-Cuban culture, he studied sociology at the University of Havana, under Fernando Ortiz, the pioneer of Cuban anthropology. Barnet is best known for his Biografia de un cimarrón (1966), the life of Esteban Montejo, a former slave who was 103 when they met. He had escaped and lived as a marron before slavery was abolished in Cuba.
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Featured books
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Curiosities
About Miguel Barnet
Birth
1940
First book
1966
Years writing
60
Miguel Ángel Barnet Lanza is a Cuban writer, novelist and ethnographer. Known as an expert on Afro-Cuban culture, he studied sociology at the University of Havana, under Fernando Ortiz, the pioneer of Cuban anthropology. Barnet is best known for his Biografia de un cimarrón (1966), the life of Esteban Montejo, a former slave who was 103 when they met. He had escaped and lived as a marron before slavery was abolished in Cuba.
Miguel Barnet is a fundamental figure in contemporary Cuban literature.
His most iconic work, Biography of a Runaway Slave, is an essential reference in testimonial narrative.
Beyond being a writer and poet, he has carried out significant work as an ethnologist and screenwriter.
His writing deeply explores history, identity, and life on Cuban plantations.
With a prolific career spanning 65 works, Barnet has also been an active voice in his country's cultural politics.
