Carlos Pintado is a poet, playwright, essayist, and fiction writer born in Cuba in 1974, who now lives in Miami. The author of over a dozen books, he won the Paz Prize from the National Poetry Series for his book Nine Coins/Nueve monedas, the Sant Jordi International Poetry Prize for his collection Habitación a oscuras, and the Sundial House Book Translation Prize for Music for Bamboo Strings(translated by Lawrence Schimel). He has been published in the New York Times, World Literature Today, and Vogue, among other periodicals, and numerous composers and classical music groups have set to music and sung his poems. HaiCuba/HaiKuba is his debut work for younger readers.
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