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| Born | 1974 Pinar del Río, Cuba |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | Cuban–American |
| Genre | Poetry, fiction, plays,screenplayshort stories |
| Notable works | 2014 Paz Prize for Poetry, National Poetry Series, Sant Jordi's International Prize, Rimas Tropicales, Habitación a oscuras, Nine coins/Nueve monedas. Poem 'The Moon" was featured in The New York Times Magazine, selected by US Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway |
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Carlos Pintado (born 1974 in Cuba) is a Cuban–American writer, playwright and award-winning poet who immigrated to the United States in the early 90s. He received the prestigious 2014Paz Prize for Poetry for his bookNine coins/Nueve Monedas awarded by theNational Poetry Series and published in a bilingual edition byAkashic Press. His bookAutorretrato en azul received theSant Jordi's International Prize for Poetry and hisEl azar y los tesoros was one of the finalists forAdonais Prize in 2008. He also contributed to the bookThe exile Experience: a journey to freedom, coordinated by Cuban American music producerEmilio Estefan. In September 2015,The New York Times Magazine published his poem "The moon", selected by US Poet LaureateNatasha Trethewey. Some of his works have been published onWorld Literature Today,The American Poetry Review,The New York Times, Raspa Magazine, among others.
In praising Pintado’s work, United States' Presidential Inaugural poetRichard Blanco has written: “The urgency and presence in Pintado’s poems feel as if the poet’s very life depended on writing them. They are possessed by a unique, intangible quality that arrests the reader and commands attention. His work is intimate yet boundless, moving easily between form and free verse, prose poems and long poems, whether capturing the everyday streets of Miami Beach or leading us into the mythic and mystical worlds of his imagination.”
In 2012, Carlos Pintado was one the judges of Gibara's Film Festival, along with Spanish singer and film maker Luis Eduardo Aute.
In 2010, the South Beach Chamber Ensemble released the"Quintet on Carlos Pintado Poems" a piano and string quintet based on his poems with concerts throughout United States led by the American composerPamela Marshall and directorMichael Andrews. The author has been an invited artist to the White Night or Sleepless Night performing among several musicians and artists of recognized artistic career.Pintado practices Nichiren Buddhism since 2004 and is also a member of the worldwide Buddhist associationSoka Gakkai International.
poem of September's edition of The New York Times Magazine" and also listed among the 10 Best Poems of 2015 by Vancouver Poetry House.
A collection of his poetry titledTropical Rhymes had its World Premiere in San Francisco in June 2011, by theSan Francisco Girls Chorus. Music accompanying the poems was composed byTania León.
Carlos Pintado's "Idolos del sueño" (Dream eidolons) was turned into a piece for a soprano, clarinet, violin, cello and piano byIleana Perez-Velazquez, which was premiered in 2011 byContinuum atKaufman Music Center.
The Exile Experience: A Journey to Freedom. Pintado was a contributor to this book, coordinated by Cuban American music producerEmilio Estefan.
Pintado has collaborated with Cuban musicians Gema and Pavel, as well as international superstarFrancisco Céspedes and in 2009 participated along with actor and sculptor Michel Hernandez on the project 'The Invention of the senses", a fusion of poetry and sculptures which is now part of the OPEN SPACES/ ESPACIO ABIERTO catalog of Miami's Centro Cultural Español. Pintado is also a contributor writer of Free Soul Dance Company directed by Belma Suazo and international actorFrancisco Gattorno.
His articles have appeared inVogue magazine in Spanish.
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