{"id":1951,"date":"2023-07-11T09:45:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T04:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/witcritic.com\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2023-07-11T09:46:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T04:16:04","slug":"who-is-antonio-benitez-rojo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/witcritic.com\/index.php\/who-is-antonio-benitez-rojo\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Antonio Ben\u00edtez Rojo?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Antonio Ben\u00edtez Rojo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Antonio Ben\u00edtez Rojo was born in Havana in 1931 and passed away in Northampton, Massachusetts in 2005. He was a narrator, screenwriter, essayist, and university professor. In 1969, he received the Casas de las Am\u00e9ricas award for his collection of short stories titled “Tute de reyes,” and in the same year, he won the Prize of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba for his second collection of short stories, “El escudo de hojas secas.” He also worked as a screenwriter for the film “Los sobrevivientes,” directed by Tom\u00e1s Guti\u00e9rrez Alea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout his career, he held various positions such as working for the Department of Statistics of the Ministry of Labor in 1965. He served as the Vice-Director of the National Directorate of Theater and Dance of the National Council of Culture from 1966 to 1967 and was the chief editor of Cuba International from 1968 to 1969. Before leaving Cuba in 1980, he directed three sections of Casa de las Am\u00e9ricas: the Center for Literary Research (1970-1971), the Editorial Department (1974-1980), and the Center for Caribbean Studies (1979-1980). He compiled texts about Juan Rulfo and co-authored anthologies such as “Fifteen Stories from Latin America” in collaboration with Mario Benedetti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ben\u00edtez Rojo was a professor of Latin American literature at Amherst College in Massachusetts and a visiting professor at several prestigious universities, including Harvard, Emory, Brown, Yale, Pittsburgh, and Miami.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His notable works include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n