The journalist and writer Roberto Cazorla died on Tuesday in Madrid at age 93 after a prolific career in journalism and literature, they informed EFE Sources close to the family.
Cazorla arrived in Madrid in 1965 and soon adapted her artistic talent – initiated as an actor on radio, television and theaters in Havana of the 40- to the journalistic work, in which he often reflected the colors, sensations and feelings of the Cuba that he longed for during his life in Madrid, a report of EFE.
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In 1965 he began working in the Spanish press agency itself, in the Department of Reports, where he stood out for his vast knowledge of the Latin American artistic world and his interviews with figures of the time, such as Lola Flores, Raphael, Antonio Gades, Julio Iglesias, Libertad Lamarque, Delia Fiallo, Lupita Ferrer and her great friend Celia Cruz, among many others.
At the same time he continued to cultivate his passion for poetry, in which he began with a first sonnet at age 11 and who continued from his counselor Carilda Oliver Labra, one of the most recognized poets in Latin America, with whom he locked friendship during his youth in the city of Matanzas, which he maintained even during his exile in Madrid, the report points out.
From Ceiba Mocha and 20 books
Cazorla was born in the town of Ceiba Mocha, next to Matanzas, childhood that portrays in the book of stories of the same title in which, between autobiography and poetic prose, he rawly portrays life in the tank of the years of misery, child exploitation, brutality … but also of traditions, humor, the colorful Caribbean and the idiosyncrasy of the Cuban people.
“I can not turn out of Cuba. I get the smells, flavors, the sensations that breastfeed me, so they always emerge in my visions visions of Afro -Cuban mythology, elements of Santería and, above all, names of fruits, places, birds … that marked me,” explained the author in the presentation of one of his poems.
They are twenty books that culminated with titles such as Citizen of a tenderness archipelago (2014) and The island I will always call myself (2016), in which all the nostalgia accumulated during its years of exile, already deployed in the poems That a rooster sing me to die in colors. Poems: 1995-1999volume commented by Ramón J. Sender who placed him in the orbit of the most prominent Latin American poets.
It was the newspaper of the newspaper Free of Miami and is in possession of half a hundred distinctions and awards, including the “favorite son of the city of Miami.”
Cazorla was also awarded by the Pen Club of Cuban Writers in exile and in 2022 with the Cuban National Excellence Medal, awarded by the San Carlos Institute of Florida (USA) to professionals who execked by their execution exalted the Republic of Cuba.
