Message-Id: <200203291550.g2TFo5F25263@sitelicense.arizona.edu> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 10:49:48 -0500 From: "Estorino, Maria" <mailto:mestorino@MIAMI.EDU> Subject: PAPERS OF CUBAN AUTHOR LABRADOR RUIZ GO ONLINE To: mailto:IMAGELIB@listserv.arizona.edu
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March 29, 2002
PAPERS OF CUBAN AUTHOR LABRADOR RUIZ GO ONLINE
Cuban Heritage Digital Collection adds the Enrique Labrador Ruiz Collection
to Its Web Site
Coral Gables, FL -- The Enrique Labrador Ruiz Collection of the Cuban
Heritage Collection (CHC) can now be viewed online at
http://www.library.miami.edu/chcdigital/chc0111_main.html. This collection
consist primarily of the manuscripts of Cuban novelist, essayist, and
journalist Labrador Ruiz's work in exile, including that of his final book,
Cartas a la Carte, and also contains a small collection of correspondence,
photographs, speeches, and awards and recognitions. The Cuban Heritage
Collection of the University of Miami has digitized this collection and
provided online access to it through the Cuban Heritage Digital Collection
Web site with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services
(IMLS).
Enrique Labrador Ruiz was born in Sagua la Grande, Cuba on 11 May 1902. He
was a member of the Academia Cubana de la Lengua and also of the Academia
Norteamericana de la Lengua Española. Labrador Ruiz was a well-learned and
traveled man who created his own style of writing novels which he called
"gaseiforme." In 1933, he published his first novel in this style, El
laberinto de sí mismo, which forms a trilogy with Cresival (1936) and Anteo
(Novela gaseiforme)(1940). With his collection of short stories El gallo en
el espejo (1953), he established his "cuentería cubiche style."
In 1976, Labrador Ruiz and his wife María (Cheché) were exiled from Cuba.
After residing in Spain and Venezuela, they moved to and maintained their
permanent residence in Miami, Florida. During his years of exile, Labrador
Ruiz wrote for many literary journals and newspapers, including Réplica
(Miami), El Diario de Caracas, and Linden Lane Magazine.
Enrique Labrador Ruiz received numerous awards and honors for his works of
literature. In Cuba, Conejito Ulán won the Hernández Catá Prize in 1946,
and in 1950 his novel Sangre hambrienta, won the Premio Nacional de
Literatura. Some of his most important works are: El gallo en el espejo
(1953), El pan de los muertos (1958), and his final work, Cartas a la carte
(1991).
The Enrique Labrador Ruiz Collection was donated to the CHC in 1992 by his
wife, María "Cheché" Labrador. It is one of several collections being made
available online as part of the Cuban Heritage Digital Collection. To learn
more about this project and view other digitized collections, visit
http://www.library.miami.edu/chcdigital/.
For more information, contact Project Director María R. Estorino at
305-284-5854 or mailto:mestorino@miami.edu.
María R. Estorino
Cuban Heritage Digital Collection
University of Miami
305-284-5854
mailto:mestorino@miami.edu
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