• Reinaldo Arenas (July 16, 1943 – December 7, 1990) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who is known as a vocal critic of Fidel Castro, the Cuban...
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  • Schnabel. The film is based on both the autobiography of the same name by Reinaldo Arenas—published in English in 1993—as well as Jana Boková's 1990 documentary...
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  • anochezca: autobiografía) is the 1992 autobiography of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, describing his early life in Cuba, his time in prison, and his escape...
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    received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing Reinaldo Arenas in Before Night Falls (2000), a criminal with cancer in Biutiful (2010)...
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    transformation. Triana met Reinaldo Arenas at a conference on his writing at the New York Public Library in 1986. Shortly after their meeting, Arenas visited Triana's...
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    role in an English-language film was as the jailed Cuban dissident Reinaldo Arenas in Before Night Falls (2000), for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best...
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  • his wife longs for the connectivity that she can no longer find. "Reinaldo Arenas, 47, Writer Who Fled Cuba, Dies - The New York Times". The New York...
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    The screenplay is based on the autobiography of the same name of Reinaldo Arenas, which was published in English in 1993. The film was highly critically...
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  • Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990), Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright Rose Marie Arenas (born 1938), Filipina socialite and philanthropist Yolanda Arenas...
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    Rican writers of his generation and the next, such as Virgilio Piñera, Reinaldo Arenas, Fernando Velázquez Medina, René Marqués, and Giannina Braschi, who...
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  • football forward born Reinaldo Nascimento Satorno Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990), Cuban poet, novelist and playwright José Reinaldo Tavares (born 1939), Brazilian...
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  • twentieth century, garnering comparisons to Carlos Montenegro and Reinaldo Arenas. Born in Havana, Rosales was a lifelong misfit diagnosed with schizophrenia...
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    No Country for Old Men (2007). He was Oscar-nominated for playing Reinaldo Arenas in Julian Schnabel's Before Night Falls (2000), a criminal with cancer...
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  • is the collective title of a series of five novels by Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas. It was subtitled by its author "the secret history of Cuba." The novels...
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    Falls (1992; English translation 1993), the autobiography of Marielito Reinaldo Arenas Before Night Falls (2000), a film based on the book 90 Miles (2001)...
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  • 1982, Palace of the White Skunks is the second book of Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas's Pentagonia book series. The main character, Fortunato, wants to escape...
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  • (1994) with an introduction by Reinaldo Arenas El Desamparado Humor De Reinaldo Arenas/The Homeless Humor of Reinaldo Arenas (1991) Literature portal Cuba...
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    Fredi González, MLB manager and coach Eglise Gutiérrez, opera singer Reinaldo Arenas, poet and novelist Oscar Hijuelos, Cuban-American Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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  • dealt with more personal or universal issues. And a few more, such as Reinaldo Arenas and Guillermo Cabrera Infante, earned international recognition in...
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    in Cuba: Before Night Falls portrays the struggles of exiled poet Reinaldo Arenas". Cincinnati CityBeat. Vol. 7, no. 13. Lightborne Publishing Inc. Archived...
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  • American actor and singer known for originating the baritone role of Reinaldo Arenas (as Wes Mason) in the world premiere of Jorge Martín's opera adaptation...
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    (73rd) Russell Crowe ‡ Maximus Decimus Meridius Gladiator Javier Bardem Reinaldo Arenas Before Night Falls Tom Hanks Chuck Noland Cast Away Ed Harris Jackson...
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  • States House of Representatives The Doorman (El Portero), a novel by Reinaldo Arenas Doorman (character), a Marvel Comics fictional superhero "The Doorman"...
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  • Welsh children's writer in Welsh and English (born 1930) December 7 – Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright (suicide, born 1943) December...
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    Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Severo Sarduy, Reinaldo Arenas, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, César Vallejo, Miguel Ángel Asturias, José...
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    army itself became the nucleus of a new society. Cuban gay writer Reinaldo Arenas wrote, "[T]he decade of the sixties ... was precisely when all the...
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  • "who live and write in the United States." Canonical writers include Reinaldo Arenas, Rafael Campo, Nilo Cruz, Daína Chaviano, Carlos Eire, Roberto G. Fernández...
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  • Alberto Montaner, the activist businessman Enrique Ros and the writer Reinaldo Arenas. The company provides literature and scholarly articles to Florida...
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  • based on the 1992 autobiography of the same name by Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, was given its world premiere at the Fort Worth Opera in June 2010...
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  • cast to portray a Cuban (the first being a film about Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas). A major newspaper in Spain accused Bardem of "cultural appropriation"...
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