Enrique Labrador Ruiz

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| birth_date = May 11, 1902

| birth_place = Sagua la Grande, Cuba

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1991|11|10|1902|05|11}}

| death_place = Miami, Florida

| nationality = Cuban

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| occupation = Journalist, novelist, essayist, poet

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| awards = Hernández Catá Prize (1946)
Premio Nacional de Literatura (1950)

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Enrique Labrador Ruiz (May 11, 1902 – November 10, 1991) was a Cuban journalist, novelist, essayist, short story writer, and poet.

Biography

Enrique Labrador Ruiz, Cuban journalist, novelist, essayist, short story writer, and poet, was born in Sagua la Grande, Cuba, on May 11, 1902. He was a member of the Academia Cubana de la Lengua and also of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española. Labrador Ruiz was a well-learned and traveled man who created his own style of writing novels, which he called gaseiforme. In 1933, he published his first novel in this style, El laberinto de sí mismo, which forms a trilogy with Cresival (1936) and Anteo (Novela gaseiforme) (1940). With his collection of short stories, El gallo en el espejo (1953), he established his cuentería cubiche style.

In 1976, Labrador Ruiz and his wife María (Cheché) were exiled from Cuba. After residing in Spain and Venezuela, they moved to and maintained their permanent residence in Miami, Florida. During his years of exile, Labrador Ruiz wrote for many literary journals and newspapers, including Réplica (Miami), El Diario de Caracas, and Linden Lane Magazine.

Enrique Labrador Ruiz received numerous awards and honors for his works of literature. In Cuba, Conejito Ulán won the Hernández Catá Prize in 1946, and in 1950 his novel Sangre hambrienta won the Premio Nacional de Literatura. Some of his most important works are: El gallo en el espejo (1953), El pan de los muertos (1958), and his final work, Cartas a la carte (1991).

Enrique Labrador Ruiz died in Miami on November 10, 1991.

Works or publications

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|last=Labrador Ruiz

|first=Enrique

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| title = Anteo (novela gaseiforme).

| publisher = [Carasa y cía]

| location = Habana

| date = 1940

| oclc = 31296981

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{{Citation

|last=Labrador Ruiz

|first=Enrique

|display-authors=0

| title = Ateneo : novela gasei forme

| publisher = [publisher not identified]

| location = Habana

| date = 1940

| oclc = 2907220

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{{Citation

|last=Labrador Ruiz

|first=Enrique

|display-authors=0

| title = Carne de quimera : (novelines neblinosos)

| publisher = SIBI

| location = Miami, Fla.

| date = 1983

| oclc = 10470989

| mode=cs1

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{{Citation

|last=Labrador Ruiz

|first=Enrique

|display-authors=0

| title = Cartas a la carte

| publisher = Ediciones Universal

| location = Miami, FL

| date = 1991

| oclc = 23930395

| mode=cs1

}}

{{Citation

|last=Labrador Ruiz

|first=Enrique

|display-authors=0

| title = Conejito Ulán.

| publisher = Ediciones La Tertulia

| location = La Habana

| date = 1963

| oclc = 935654

| mode=cs1

}}

{{Citation

|last=Labrador Ruiz

|first=Enrique

|display-authors=0

| title = Cresival : novela

| publisher = [publisher not identified]

| location = Habana, Cuba

| date = 1936

| oclc = 4731458

| mode=cs1

}}

{{Citation

|last=Labrador Ruiz

|first=Enrique

|display-authors=0

| title = Cuentos.

| publisher = [UNEAC]

| location = La Habana

| date = 1970

| oclc = 2405816

| mode=cs1

}}

{{Citation

|last=Labrador Ruiz

|first=Enrique

|display-authors=0

| title = El cuento en la revolución

| publisher = Union de escritores y artistas de Cuba

| location = La Habana

| date = 1975

| oclc = 490797162

| mode=cs1

}}

{{Citation

|last=Labrador Ruiz

|first=Enrique

|display-authors=0

| title = El gallo en el espejo

| publisher = Editorial Novaro

| location = Mexico

| date = 1958

| oclc = 3209206

| mode=cs1

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{{Citation

|last=Labrador Ruiz

|first=Enrique

|display-authors=0

| title = El laberinto de sí mismo : novela

| publisher = Senda Nueva de Ediciones

| location = New York

| date = 1983

| oclc = 10344167

| mode=cs1

}}

{{Citation

|last=Labrador Ruiz

|first=Enrique

|display-authors=0

| title = El pan de los muertos

| publisher = Ediciones Universal

| location = Miami, Fla., U.S.A.

| date = 1988

| oclc = 18718106

| mode=cs1

}}

{{Citation

|last=Labrador Ruiz

|first=Enrique

|display-authors=0

| title = Enrique en la república de Labrador

| publisher = Ediciones Matanzas

| location = Matanzas Cuba

| date = 2011

| oclc = 818354240

| mode=cs1

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{{Citation

|last=Labrador Ruiz

|first=Enrique

|display-authors=0

| title = Grimpolario (saldo lírico)

| publisher = Carasa y Co.

| location = Habana

| date = 1937

| oclc = 5269600

| mode=cs1

}}

{{Citation

|last=Labrador Ruiz

|first=Enrique

|display-authors=0

| title = Festschrift

| publisher = Ed. Ciencias

| location = Montevideo

| date = 1981

| oclc = 252866637

| mode=cs1

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{{Citation

|last=Labrador Ruiz

|first=Enrique

|display-authors=0

| title = La sangre hambrienta; novela.

| publisher = Ediciones Mundo Nuevo

| location = México

| date = 1959

| oclc = 3521712

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{{Citation

|last=Labrador Ruiz

|first=Enrique

|display-authors=0

| title = Conversaciones con Reinaldo Sánchez

| publisher = Hispamerican Books

| location = Miami, FL

| date = 1984

| oclc = 12930814

| mode=cs1

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{{Citation

|last=Labrador Ruiz

|first=Enrique

|display-authors=0

| title = Manera de vivir : pequeño expediente literario

| publisher = [publisher not identified]

| location = La Habana

| date = 1941

| oclc = 4599447

| mode=cs1

}}

{{Citation

|last=Labrador Ruiz

|first=Enrique

|display-authors=0

| title = Papel de fumar, cenizas de conversación

| publisher = Editorial Lex

| location = La Habana

| date = 1945

| oclc = 13548698

| mode=cs1

}}

{{Citation

|last=Labrador Ruiz

|first=Enrique

|display-authors=0

| title = Trailer de sueños.

| location = Habana

| date = 1949

| oclc = 5924741

| mode=cs1

}}

{{Citation

|last=Labrador Ruiz

|first=Enrique

|display-authors=0

| title = Un hombre de vasos capilares

| publisher = Editorial Capiro

| location = Santa Clara

| date = 2005

| oclc = 181159676

| mode=cs1

}}

{{Citation

|last=Labrador Ruiz

|first=Enrique

|display-authors=0

| title = Viajero sin itinerarios: crónicas de viaje

| publisher = Editorial Letras Cubanas

| location = La Habana, Cuba

| date = 2011

| oclc = 801973483

| mode=cs1

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{{Citation

|last=Labrador Ruiz

|first=Enrique

|display-authors=0

| title = Grimpolario (saldo lírico)

| publisher =

| date = 1937

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{{Citation

|last=Labrador Ruiz

|first=Enrique

|display-authors=0

| title = Carne de quimera (novelines neblinosos)

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| date = 1947

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Notes and references

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{{Cite open archival metadata

| author = Finding aid author: Arabelis Ureña; edited by Esperanza B. de Varona, April 1995; Updated by María R. Estorino, March 2002

| title = Guide to the Enrique Labrador Ruiz papers

| url = http://proust.library.miami.edu/findingaids/?p=collections/findingaid&id=42

| date = 1995, 2002

| repository = University of Miami Libraries

| location = Coral Gables, FL

| accessdate = November 7, 2014

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External links

The [http://proust.library.miami.edu/findingaids/?p=collections/findingaid&id=42 Enrique Labrador Ruiz papers] are available at the [http://library.miami.edu/chc/ Cuban Heritage Collection], [http://library.miami.edu/ University of Miami Libraries]. The Enrique Labrador Ruiz papers consist primarily of the manuscripts of his articles and essays written in exile and includes that of his final book, Cartas a la carte (1991).
Selected items from the [http://merrick.library.miami.edu/cubanHeritage/chc0111/ Enrique Labrador Ruiz papers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616124149/http://merrick.library.miami.edu/cubanHeritage/chc0111/ |date=2010-06-16 }} are available through the [http://merrick.library.miami.edu/ University of Miami Libraries Digital Collections] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150119103100/http://merrick.library.miami.edu/ |date=2015-01-19 }} portal.

Category:1902 births

Category:1991 deaths

Category:People from Sagua la Grande

Category:Cuban emigrants to the United States

Category:Exiles of the Cuban Revolution in the United States

Category:Cuban male novelists

Category:Cuban male poets

Category:Cuban male journalists

Category:20th-century Cuban novelists

Category:20th-century Cuban poets

Category:20th-century Cuban male writers

Category:20th-century Cuban journalists