Onelio Jorge Cardoso

(1914-1989 )
Cuba
This writer graduated in Sciences and Letters in the Institute of Santa Clara. He worked as rural professor, peddler, traveling salesman of medicine, editor of the Mil Diez Radio News and the in the making of scripts for radio and television. He was writer of texts and editor-in-chief in the movie news Cine-Revista. He was an executive member of the Literature Section of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC). He was the director of the Musical Rights Institute of the Nacional Council of Culture (CNC). He worked as the responsible of special reports in the Granma newspaper. He was the editor-in-chief of Pueblo y Cultura and the children`s seminary Pionero. As short-story writer and journalist he contributed with Bohemia, Carteles, Archipielago (Caibarien, Las Villas), Masas, Nuestro Tiempo, La Ultima Hora, Hoy, INRA, Universidad de Havana, Union, La Gaceta de Cuba, El Mundo, Revolucion, Santiago, Casa de las Americas. He travelled to the Soviet Union, Checoslovaquia, Panama and Chile. He was jury in the contests UNEAC, David, La Edad de Oro and Casa de las Americas. He was the script writer of short documentals in the ICAIC and in the Films Section of the Rebeld Army. He is the author of the compilation El pueblo cuenta and the script of the film Cumbite, by Tomas Gutierrez Alea, based in the novel Los gobernadores del rocio, by the Haitian writer Jacques Roumain. His stories have been taken to stage by the groups Teatro Escambray and Conjunto Dramatico de Oriente, and those stories have been translated into Bulgarian, Russian, German, Czech, Chinese, English and French; and they have been included in several antholigies. He was the cultural adviser of the Cuban embassy in Peru. He died in 1989.