Cuba Honors Vindicated Writer Lezama Lima

HAVANA TIMES, Dec. 20 – Cuba’s National Council of Cultural Heritage declared the home of writer José Lezama Lima a National Monument, marking the end of the tributes for the centenary of the birth of that Cuban intellectual, considered one of the major exponents of Spanish-American literature. The ceremony also closed the days of vindication of Lezama (1910-1976), condemned to ostracism by the island’s cultural authorities in the 1970s, reported IPS.