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Winner of the 1997 Cervantes Prize and widely considered one of the foremost Cuban writers of the twentieth century, Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005) was the author of five novels, four screenplays, and multiple collections of short stories. Born in the small town of Gibara, Cabrera Infante was initially a supporter of the Cuban Revolution and served under Castro as director of the National Board of Culture and sub-director of the newspaper Revolución (now Granma). After being detained in Cuba for four months in 1968, he spent the rest of his life in exile as a dissident. His most well-known work, Tres Tristes Tigres, labeled as counterrevolutionary by the Cuban government, has been compared to Joyce's Ulysses in its ingenious and groundbreaking use of language.