Defending our culture

Salvador Bueno Menéndez

He was born in August 18th, 1917. In 1942 he graduated in the University of Havana as Ph. Doctor. Since then and until 1947 he has worked as Professor of Spanish in a private teaching institutiton. Later he was in charge of the Chair of Grammar and Literature in Pinar del Rìo and Havana High Schools. Through an opposition contests he joined the Chair of History of Cuban and Hispanic American Literature in the School of Philosophy and Letters in the University of Havana. Collaborator of Carteles, Bohemia, Unión, Casa de las Américas, La Gaceta de Cuba, Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional, Cuadernos Americanos (Mexico) and many other Cuban and foreign publishings. He has travelled through the United States of America, Western Europe, Hungary and the late Soviet Union. Author of several anthologíes: Antología del cuento en Cuba (1902-1952), Los mejores ensayistas cubanos, Los mejores cuentos cubanos, Órbita de José Antonio Fernández de Castro. President of the Cuban Academy of Language. Since 1962 he is professor of the School of Arts and Letters of the Unioversity of Havana. Literary adviser of the Josè Martì National Library. National Award on Cultural Research, 2000

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