Nicolás Guillén

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Afro-Cuban poet human journalist poet

Nicolás Guillén was a prominent Cuban poet and journalist, widely regarded as the national poet of Cuba and a leading voice of Afro-Cuban literature and social protest.

Aliases (2)

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Afro-Cuban poet → human → journalist → poet →
awardReceived	National Prize for Literature (Cuba) →
birthDate	1902-07-10 →
birthPlace	Camagüey, Cuba →
countryOfCitizenship	Cuba →
deathDate	1989-07-16 →
deathPlace	Havana, Cuba →
describedAs	leading voice of Afro-Cuban literature → national poet of Cuba → social protest poet →
educatedAt	University of Havana →
ethnicGroup	Afro-Cuban →
familyName	Guillén →
genre	poetry → political poetry → social protest literature →
givenName	Nicolás →
influenced	Afro-Latin American literature → Caribbean poetry →
influencedBy	Afro-Cuban music → Langston Hughes → son (Cuban musical genre) →
languageOfWorkOrName	Spanish →
memberOf	Communist Party of Cuba →
movement	Afro-Cuban literature → Negrismo → social protest poetry →
name	Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista →
nationality	Cuban →
notableWork	Cantos para soldados y sones para turistas → El gran zoo → España: poema en cuatro angustias y una esperanza → Motivos de son → Sóngoro cosongo → West Indies Ltd. →
occupation	journalist → poet →
placeOfBurial	Havana, Cuba →
politicalAlignment	communism →
positionHeld	national poet of Cuba → president of the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba →
subjectOf	Afro-Cuban studies →

Referenced by (16)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Cantos para soldados y sones para turistas → El gran zoo → España: poema en cuatro angustias y una esperanza → Motivos de son → Sóngoro cosongo → West Indies Ltd. →	author
Cantos para soldados y sones para turistas → Motivos de son → Sóngoro cosongo →	creator
Guillén →	hasNotableBearer
Nicolás Guillén ("Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista") →	name
University of Havana →	notableAlumnus
Afro-Cubans →	notablePerson
National Prize for Literature (Cuba) →	notableRecipient
Cantos para soldados y sones para turistas ("Nicolás Guillén bibliography") →	partOf
El gran zoo →	workOf