Gabo's Guayabera Enriched Cuban Museum
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- Culture and Traditions
- Personalities
- 04 / 15 / 2010
The guayabera will be the second article of its type belonging to a Nobel Prize for Literature in the collection. The first one belonged to the Guatemalan novelist Miguel Angel Asturias.
Gabo's guayabera, sent from Cartagena de Indias, was delivered by his wife Mercedes Barcha, through the Foundation for New Latin American Cinema, to Cuban narrator Senel Paz, vice president of the National Union of Writers and Artists.
The donation toke place thanks to actions taken by Gabriel's friends among them professor Alberto Abello Vives from the Bolivar University in Cartagena and founder of the Colombian Caribbean Observatory.
The article is "one of Cuba's identity symbols to which to he is linked from the 1960s". It will be received on Saturday as a great cultural event.
The Sancti Spiritus Museum's collection has guayaberas of cultural, political and social personalities from Latin America and Peoples Republic of China.
Source: Cubarte
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