Héctor Zumbado, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Héctor Zumbado

Cuban writer

Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1932

Place of Birth: Vedado, Havana Province, Cuba

Date of Death: 06-Jun-2016

Profession: writer

Nationality: Cuba

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Héctor Zumbado

  • Héctor Zumbado Argueta (19 March 1932 – 6 June 2016), also known as H.
  • Zumbado, was a Cuban writer, journalist, critic, humorist, and essayist.
  • In his words, "humor is a weapon, because it criticizes and exposes at the same time, and does so with a smile.
  • Then that who is targeted cannot get too angry."He has published: Limonada (Lemonade), 1978; Amor a primer añejo, 1980; Riflexiones (a portmanteau word that could be translated as Riflections), 1980; Prosas en ajiaco (Proses on pottage), 1984; El American Way (The American Way), 1981; ¡Esto le zumba!, 1981; and Kitsch, Kitsch, ¡BANG, BANG!, 1988.
  • He has written for several Cuban and foreign press publications, like Juventud Rebelde and the magazine Bohemia. Zumbado has collaborated with publications of Chile, Uruguay, Dominican Republic, Algeria, India, Norway, and the former GDR (German Democratic Republic), among others (3). In 2000, he was the first person to be awarded the Cuban National Humor Award (Premio Nacional de Humorismo) (3). As a social manners critic, his favorite subject is bureaucracy.

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