Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1979-2005) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, and screenwriter. In the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín. A one-time supporter of Fidel Castro, Cabrera Infante went into exile to London in 1965. He is best known for the novel Tres Tristes Tigres, published in English as Three Trapped Tigers in 1967. He translated James Joyce’s Dubliners into Spanish in 1972.
‘Hudson had been a professional collector of birds in the pampas as a young man, employed first by the Smithsonian in the United States.’
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