Narrator, essayist, literary critic and poet. He is author of essential texts for the knowledge of Cuban national identity and culture.

In critic`s viewpoint, his always-documented prose is enriched with a peculiar humorist sense to tackle themes running from history and the inmediate news remembrances to literary reviews and highlights of different aspects from Cuban culture.
He was honored with National Prize of Literature in 2003. His work has been bestowed with Italo Calvino and Juan Rulfo of Radio Francia Internacional Prizes.

Reynaldo has been also winner of National Prize of Literary Critic and National Prize of Journalism for four times.

Founder and chief redactor of Revolución y Cultura Magazine, responsible of the cultural pages, editor, collaborator of national and international communicative means, among them Agencia de Prensa Latina; Reynaldo González has conducted Cinemateca de Cuba during 11 years.

He is author, among other titles, of short story Miel sobre hojuelas (Honey over flakes), novel Siempre la muerte, su paso breve (Always death, its brief route), the testimonial story La fiesta de los tiburones (Sharks` party), the historical essay Contradanzas y latigazos (Contradanzas and lashes), the Critic Prize`s winner Lezama Lima essays, el ingenuo culpable (The naive guilty) and Llorar es un placer (Crying is a pleasure), both Critic Prizes winners, the historical essay El Bello Habano. Biografía íntima del tabaco (The beautiful Habano, Intimate Biography of Habano), the essay La ventana indiscreta (The indiscreet window), the cookering recipe book Échale salsita, the novel Al cielo sometidos (Submitted to heaven), Ítalo Calvino and Critic Prizes, essay Cine cubano, Ese ojo que nos ve (Cuban Cinema, an eye gazing at us) and the poems book Envidia de Adriano.

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