“Talentoso!”: 10 Talented Afro-Latino Writers Who You Should Know And Read

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Nicolas Guillen

Best remembered as the national poet of Cuba, Guillen began his writing career as a published writer in various magazines in the 1920s. The “Negrista” poetry market was initially dominated by White Cubans until Guillen came on the scene. With his black poetry, he created writing that was marked with African themes, and he helped to emphasize Afro-Cuban writing as a valid genre in Cuban Lit. He published his first work, Motivos de son in 1930, and his final work, Por el Mar de las Antillas anda un barco de papel: Poemas para niños mayores de edad, in 1977.

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