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Arturo Arango is a Cuban storyteller, essayist, screenwriter and teacher. He graduated from the School of Arts and Letters of the University of Havana. He is the author of the short story collections La vida es una semana (which won the prize of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba in 1988), La Habana elegante (1995, to which belong the pieces “Bola, bandera y gallardete”, awarded at the Juan Rulfo international contest, and “Lista de espera”, which was made into a film by director Juan Carlos Tabío), and Vimos arder un árbol (2012). As an essayist, he has mainly focused on Cuban literature and cultural life. Some of his texts have been collected in the books Reincidencias (1989), Segundas reincidencias (2002), Terceras reincidencias. La Historia por los cuernos (2013), and En los márgenes. Acercamientos a la poesía cubana (2015). Arturo has published the novels Una lección de anatomía (1998), El libro de la realidad (2001), Muerte de nadie (2004, Casa de Teatro International Award in the Dominican Republic in 2003), and No me preguntes cuándo (2018, Critics’ Award). In 2008 he received the Virgilio Piñera Playwriting Award for his play El viaje termina en Elsinor.
As a screenwriter, Arturo is the co-author of the scripts for Lista de espera (Juan Carlos Tabío, Best Script Award at the Havana Film Festival in 2000), Aunque estés lejos (Juan Carlos Tabío, 2003), El cuerno de la abundancia (Juan Carlos Tabío, Third Coral Award and Best Script Award at the Havana Film Festival in 2008), Café amargo (Rigoberto Jiménez, 2015), Marioneta (Álvaro Curiel de Icaza, 2019), and Perejil (José María Cabral, 2022). He is part of the Viceversa collective, for the analysis and writing of scripts.
From 2006 to 2016, Arturo was the Head of the Screenwriting Department at the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños, where he created the Master’s Degree in Audiovisual Writing and served as its director until 2021. He has been an advisor at the Plume & Pellicule screenwriting workshop of the Dreamago Association from 2008 to date, and has taught screenwriting workshops in the Dominican Republic, Mexico and El Salvador. Since 2005 he has been a visiting professor at the Department of Image and Sound at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico.
