| 20/01/2021 – 17:56 (GMT-4)
The narrator, poet, periodical, translator and literary critic Germán Piniella Sardiñas Failed this Saturday in La Habana, at the age of 86, due to no revelations.
Author of at least four books, between which the novel A touch of melancholy (Union Editions, 2013) and the approach to the culinary tradition Coming with Doña Lita (Art and Literature, 2010), Piniella Sardiñas owner as collaborator of the magazines Casa de las Américas, La Gaceta de Cuba, Bohemia, El Caimán Barbudo y La jiribilla. Asimismo, was co-edited as editor of the bilingual magazine Semester Progress.
In 1970, Piniella Sardiñas wrote alongside the poet and dissident Raúl Rivero the anthology Party point, a compilation of texts relevant to young readers and poets of Iceland published by the editorial Pluma en Ristre.
Piniella Sardiñas was the mayor of the celebrity, conductor, actor and locutor of Cuban radio and television, Germán Pinelli; hermano del compositor, producer and director of the specific establishments in Miami, Tony Pinelli and a dozen of the musicians of Los Tres de La Habana, Germán y Ari. The difference between the appellants and others is that Germán Padre, a Cuban for the emigration of Asturian emigrants, changed his position at Pinelli with the end of his most commercial work on radio and television.
In the social network Facebook, the Cuban writer and periodical Rafael Grillo lamented his loss and despair of him with sentimental words: “Amigo, Germán Piniella Sardiñas, more than ever, goodbye. Conocerte, abrazar tu afecto, aunque sea en una amistad de korta duración, pero muy sincera, is onoplosbaar. Your passion, the enthusiasm of creating, the way to approach the destination without renouncing the good of life is a teaching that I give ”.
“And you wanted Amelia Rodríguez, adorable women, contiguous and with all things, my transmission and my carriage. This is a novelty in what works and what can be learned algae, vea la luz, para que continuu tu luz. With ‘a touch of melancholy’, we despise Juliette Massip and you, ”concluded Grillo.
Su muerte se suma a la list of lost that in the pursuit of artistic creation, periodism, cinema and spectacle has surpassed the Caribbean nation in the last months, among them the quintet: the cantor Farah María, the actress Broselianda Hernández, the young and prominent csta el realiz cinematographic critic Enrique Colina, plastic artist Pedro de Oraá, star Rosita Fornés, historian Eusebio Leal, periodical Hugo J. Byrne, producer of animated debuts Paco Prats and writer Sigfredo Ariel, among others.