The narrator, poet, playwright and scriptwriter for film, radio and television Chely Lima, who was known in Cuba for his novels and work on scripts for television, died this Saturday in Miami according to reports on social networks.
The news spread after the writer Daina Chavianoa friend and colleague of Lima’s in the past, wrote on her personal blog: “Chely Lima has died.”
“What can I say when someone who was an indelible part of the most intense and creative years of my life has passed away? What can I add to the loss of my closest writer friend – spirit twin in dreams and literary fantasies – during the most fruitful and experimental decades of our twenties, when we were in the midst of our formative and creative period?
Chely Lima, whose registration name in 1957 was Graciella Lima Álvarez, is known for her work from the eighties, when as a writer she signed several fantastic stories together with her partner, the also deceased writer Alberto Serret.
“Alberto Serret has been the most important person in my adult life. He still is. Before him I had gone through several relationships, but I never met someone so capable of integrating into my unusual world in which everything seemed to be upside down. With him I was able to open up from the first moment.”, he commented to Alejandro Langape in a interview for feminist magazine taut wings.
In this conversation, about his early years and regarding his change of sexual identity, he assured: “I was just a strange fifteen-year-old boy who had his period every month, but I felt like a grown man, ready to challenge your destiny. Seen from a distance, he’s a bit funny and a bit sad at the same time.”
Lima published his first books in the 80s: our time (poetry) and monologue with rain (stories, David Award), as the portal recalls isliada.
The volumes are due to his work with Serret Open space (science fiction) and Murderers prefer blondes (police), as well as the scripts of popular television series such as on the side of the heart Y Today is always stillthis one also co-authored with Daína Chaviano and Antonio Orlando Rodríguez.
Later, Serret and Lima brought the iconic series to the screen shiraladbased on a novel of his that was never published.
Together they had also conceived violent, the first Cuban rock opera with music by Edesio Alejandro and Mario Dali, whose premiere took place in 1987 at the National Theater. In 1991, Lima published what would be his first novel, witches.
After 1992, the year in which he left Cuba, he lived in Ecuador, Argentina and the United States. In each of those stays, she worked in the media, taught courses, and wrote for television, film, and theater.
In 1994, his novels were published in Mexico. late night confessions Y magic triangles.
He received, in 1998, the Juan Rulfo Prize for Children’s Literature for The little pig who loved ballet.
In Miami, he developed creative literature and scriptwriting workshops for the Florida Center for the Literary Arts of Miami-Dade College.
Among his most recent publications are the collections of poems mistress’s speech, Everything that is not said and the novels Lucrecia means perfidiOh circular time memories.
According to his biography on Wikipedia, where he is defined as a “queer North American writer of Cuban origin,” Lima died in Miami of cardiovascular complications. He was 66 years old.
