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Marcial Gala | |
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| Born | 1963 (age 60–61) |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, poet |
| Language | Spanish |
| Period | 1990s—now |
| Notable works | Llámenme Cassandra, La Catedral de Los Negros |
Marcial Gala (born 1963) is a Cuban writer, poet, and architect, who has received numerous prizes for his literary works.
Marcial Gala was born in Havana, Cuba in 1963. He first trained in behavioral psychiatry (ergoterapia psiquiatra) at Politécnico de la Salud de Santiago de Cuba in 1983, and received additional training as an architect in Universidad Central de las Villas , Santa Clara in 1992. [1]
He has received the Premio Alejo Carpentier for his novel La Catedral de los negros. His books have been translated into numerous languages, including English, German, Polish, Italian and Portuguese.
He currently resides in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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