Eduardo Heras also achieved the recognition of many Cubans from the television broadcast of a Narrative Techniques Course that he taught in the year 2000. (Photos: Onelio Jorge Cardoso Literary Training Center – Facebook)
The prominent Cuban writer, journalist and editor Eduardo Heras León, known as the “Chino Heras” died this Thursday in Havana at the age of 82. By family decision, his body was cremated and later Cuban writers, artists and institutions will pay tribute to him.
“The first news I receive this morning is that Eduardo Heras León has died in Havana. For me he will always be the teacher who let me dig into his drawers, read me poems by Ballagas and spoke to me in detail about his life and his work, ”wrote journalist and poet Darcy Borrego.
National Literacy Awardature in 2014 and the National Edition Award in 2001, Heras was one of the most important writers of his generation and one of the parametrized intellectuals during the so-called Gray Quinquenio. After the Mention obtained in 1970 in the Casa de las Américas Contest for his account book footsteps in the grass, He was punished and was forced to interrupt his degree in Journalism to become a worker and later a teacher in the Vanguardia Socialista factory, known as Antillana de Acero.
However, his facet as a teacher became the best known, loved and remembered from the “Chino Heras” since the Literary Training Workshop began in 1998 at the Onelio Jorge Cardoso Literary Training Center founded and directed by him until 2020.
Alejandro Escobar, one of the graduates of the XX course of the Onelio Center, the last one he taught as a teacher and director, characterized him in a remembrance published today on his Facebook profile: “King of spoilers, wise, talkative, faithful, sweet, tender, teacher, joker, friend, all this and more is configured in the smile of my teacher, the teacher of hundreds of young people who carry the Ñ del Onelio as a mark in the soul, thanks to the fact that once Eduardo “El Chino” Heras León, bet against all flags for us”.
Likewise, Nelson Pérez, another of the students on that list, wrote: “There remains your work, Master, your stories, your Literary Training Center, and the thousands of grateful disciples that we awaken to the light of a new literary life from from that your first conference, where you wisely warned us that not all of us would come out of there being writers, but better readers and, above all, better human beings, while you asked for “pity for the reader””. That was just one of the classic phrases that the beloved professor repeated in his classroom.
Other of his most notable books are The war had six names, on clean fire, the praise book, The presentation book y matter of principle which resulted in the National Prize of the UNEAC in 1983 and the Critics’ Prize in 1986. In addition, since 1990 he was director of the Editorial Casa de las Américas until the year 2000.
Eduardo Heras also achieved the recognition of many Cubans from the television broadcast of a Narrative Techniques Course that he taught, together with fellow writer Francisco López Sacha, in the year 2000.
the journalist Yenys Laura Prieto remembered her facet as initiator of University for All when he told on his Facebook profile: “I received my first Literature classes from him, from the Narrative Techniques Course that was broadcast on television. I was 11 years old. I remember the first lecture I saw, an analysis of the story Night backsby Cortazar. She left a mark on my life as a reader, the eagerness to discover those stories and activate the springs of writing.