Editing Reinaldo Arenas (section)

{{short description|Cuban writer}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Reinaldo Arenas
| caption = Reinaldo Arenas in 1986
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| birth_name = Reinaldo Arenas Fuentes 
| birth_date = July 16, 1943<ref name="New Yorker">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-literature-of-uprootedness-an-interview-with-reinaldo-arenas |title=The Literature of Uprootedness: An Interview with Reinaldo Arenas |author=Ann Tashi Slater |date=December 5, 2013 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |access-date=December 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106060211/https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-literature-of-uprootedness-an-interview-with-reinaldo-arenas |archive-date=January 6, 2015}}</ref><ref name="dies" />
| birth_place = [[Aguas Claras]], [[Holguín Province]], Cuba<ref name="dies" />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1990|12|7|1943|7|16}}<ref name="dies" /><ref name="matters" />
| death_place = [[Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan|Hell's Kitchen]], New York, United States
| occupation = Writer
| period = 1966–1990
| genre = [[poetry]], [[novel]], [[drama]]
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| notableworks = ''[[Pentagonia]]''<br />''[[Before Night Falls]]''
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'''Reinaldo Arenas''' (July 16, 1943 – December 7, 1990)<ref name="New Yorker" /> was a Cuban [[poet]], [[novelist]], and [[playwright]] who is known as a vocal critic of [[Fidel Castro]], the [[Cuban Revolution]], and the [[Cuban government]]. His memoir of the [[Cuban dissident movement]] and of being a [[political prisoner]], ''Before Night Falls'', was dictated after his escape to the [[United States]] during the 1980 [[Mariel boatlift]] and published posthumously. Arenas, who was dying of [[AIDS]], killed himself in 1990.<ref name="post">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1993/11/07/last-days-of-reinaldo-arenas/82376cee-472f-43e7-b1fb-f4047de4811e/ |title=Last Days of Reinaldo Arenas |last=Manrique |first=Jaime |date=November 7, 1993 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=August 14, 2023}}</ref>