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José Lezama Lima (December 19 1910-1976) was a Cuban writer and poet who is considered one of the most influential figures in Latin American literature. Born in the Columbia Encampment close to Havana where his father was a colonel, Lezama lived through the most turbulent times of Cuba's history, fighting first against the Machado dictatorship, and later surviving the Castro regime. His literary output includes the experimental novel Paradiso, several anthologies of Cuban poetry and the magazines Verbum and Orígenes, presiding as the patriarch of Cuban letters for most of his latter years.
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