Reinaldo Arenas
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 Revolution, and the
Cuban government. His memoir of the
Cuban dissident movement and of being a
political prisoner, ''Before Night Falls'', was dictated after his escape to the
United States during the 1980
Mariel boatlift and published posthumously. Arenas, who was dying of
AIDS, had committed
suicide with an intentional
overdose.
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