Antón Arrufat, a Cuban playwright and poet, died Sunday, May 21 in Havana at the age of 87. He had been banned from publication and sent for 14 years to work as a warehouseman in a municipal library because of his homosexuality.
He won in 1968 the literary prize of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (Uneac) for "The Seven against Thebes" The work quickly fell out of favor, due to the institutional rejection and censorship of this work, then considered "counter-revolutionary"