Onelio Jorge Cardoso [SEP] place of death
Onelio Jorge Cardoso
Onelio Jorge Cardoso (May 14, 1914 in Calabazar de Sagua, Cuba – May 29, 1986 in Havana, Cuba) was a Cuban editor, screenwriter, short fiction writer and party functionary.
Biography and career.
Cardoso was born in Calabazar de Sagua, nearby Encrucijada, Cuba. He was unable to complete his high school studies due to his family's economic problems, employing himself in different trades to support his family. One of these was as a traveling salesman, a job that
writers who included Virgilio Piñera and his "Cuentos Fríos" (1956), Alejo Carpentier with "La guerra del tiempo" (1958) and Onelio Jorge Cardoso with "El cuentero" (1958). Onelio Jorge Cardoso portrayed the simple life of the countryside and has been dubbed El Cuentero Mayor ("The Best Storyteller").
Among other works published before 1960 are "Cayo Canas" (1942), by Lino Novás Calvo, "El gallo en el espejo" (1953), by Enrique Labrador