Eduardo Manet
Playwright, filmmaker, and novelist born in 1930 in Santiago de Cuba, Eduardo Manet left his native island permanently in 1968 to settle in Paris. Goncourt Prize for Students of L'Île du lézard vert (Flammarion, 1992) and the Interallié Prize for Cuban Rhapsody (Grasset, 1996), he is the author of a dozen novels and short stories, including The Mausoleum, finalist for the 1982 Goncourt Prize (Archipoche, 2009) and A Cuban in Paris (Écriture, 2009), evoking his Parisian years. His attachment to his Cuban roots is at the heart of his latest novel, Les Trois Frères Castro (Écriture, 2010).