Some of Travieso Serrano’s most relevant novels were “To kill the wolf” and “When the night dies.”
LIMA, Peru – Cuban writer, professor and journalist Julio Travieso Serrano died in Havana last Saturday night at the age of 85, the Cuban Book Institute reported.
Member of the official Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), the artist’s literary career includes relevant works such as to kill the wolf, When the night dies, dust and gold and It rains on Havana.
Born on April 11, 1940, he also worked as a journalist and professor at the University of Havana (UH), and taught at other academic institutions in Spain, Russia and Mexico.
“By family decision, his body will be cremated and veiled in an intimate ceremony,” reports via Facebook a note from the aforementioned Institute.
The publication describes Travieso Serrano as a man of “revolutionary merits.” In that sense, he received the Clandestine Struggle Combatant Medal in 1985 and was also decorated with the Distinction for National Culture and the Alexander Pushkin Order, awarded by Russia.
In fact, a good part of his training took place in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), an ally of the Castro regime of Cuba.
The Cuban intellectual studied Law at the UH, but complemented his training with a master’s degree in Sciences at the Lomonosov University in Moscow and obtained, in 1985, the title of Doctor in Economics at the Latin American Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
Throughout his life he also received other literary awards, including the Mazatlán Prize for Literature from Mexico and the Literary Criticism Prize from Cuba.
“Due to the transcendence of his work, considered a benchmark within Cuban novels, he was awarded the National Literature Prize in 2021,” highlights the Cuban Book Institute.
