National Literature Prize in 1999, he is considered one of the most relevant voices of Cuba in the second half of the 20th century.

The Cuban poet César López, who won the National Literature Prize in 1999, died this Tuesday in Havana at the age of 86, according to the "Granma" newspaper. The author of "Three books on the city" was born in Santiago de Cuba on December 25th, 1933 and is considered one of Cuba’s most relevant voices of the second half of the 20th century.

The narrator, essayist, literary critic, and writer studied Philosophy and Literature at the University of Havana and received his doctorate in Medicine from the University of Salamanca in 1959. He served as Consul of Cuba in Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom) and also worked as head of the advisory department for Western Europe in the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations, in the Translation Department and in the Institute of Documentation and Information of the Cuban Academy of Sciences.

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