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   Pedro Juan Gutiérrez

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Pedro Juan Gutiérrez born in 1950 (Matanzas, Cuba) and he was a journalist. He began to work with eleven years old, like a vendor of ice-creams and newspapers. He was a soldier, swimming and kayak instructor, agricultural worker, technician in construction, technical designer, radiostation speaker and journalist for 26 years.

He shares literature with painting and sculpture. Gutiérrez is author of several poetry books, and author of Dirty Havana trilogy, The king of Havana, Tropical Animal

(winner of the Spanish prize Alfonso Garcia-Ramos 2000), The insatiable spiderman, Dog meat (winner of the Italian prize Narrativa Sur del Mundo), The snake nest, Our GG in Havana and the short stories book, Melancholy of the lions.

The named master of dirty realism, lives in Havana and depicts life in the shady alleys of his city with his unadorned style.

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