| 01.01.2021 – 17:56 (GMT-4)
Narrator, poet, journalist, translator and literary critic Germán Piniella Sardiñas He died in Havana on Saturday at the age of 86, for reasons that have not yet been revealed.
Author of at least four books, of which the novel stands out A note of melancholy (Ediciones Unión, 2013) and the approach of the culinary tradition Eat with Doña Lita (Art and Literature, 2010), Piniella Sardiñas collaborated with the magazine House of America, La Gaceta de Cuba, Bohemia, The Bearded Cayman and Jiribilla. He was also an associate editor of the bilingual magazine Weekly progress.
In 1970, Piniella Sardiñas wrote with the poet and the dissident Raul Rivero anthology Point, a compilation of texts belonging to the young narrators and poets of the island published by the publisher Pluma en Ristre.
Piniella Sardiñas was the eldest son of the famous Cuban radio and television host, actor and broadcaster, Germán Pinelli; brother of the Miami-based composer, producer and entertainment director, Tony Pinelli and the uncle of two of the musicians in The three from Havana, Germán and Ari. The difference in name between them is due to the fact that Germán Sr., a Cuban, but the son of Asturian emigrants, changed it to Pinelli to make it more commercial for radio and television.
On the social network Facebook, the Cuban writer and journalist Rafael Grillo complained about his loss and said goodbye to him with words from his heart: “Friend, Germán Piniella Sardiñas, more than goodbye forever. Meeting you, embracing your affection, even in a short but very sincere friendship, is unforgettable. Your passion, the enthusiasm to create, the way to face destiny without giving up the pleasure of life is a lesson you leave me ”.
“And to your dear Amelia Rodríguez, an adorable woman, with you and with everyone, I send you my encouragement and affection. May that novel you are working on and from which I could read something, see the light, so that your light may continue. With “a drop of melancholy”, Juliette Massip and I said goodbye “, Grillo concluded.
His death adds to list of losses that in the field of artistic creation, journalism, cinema and entertainment the Caribbean nation has suffered in recent months, including: singer Farah María, actress Broselianda Hernández, young and prominent filmmaker Diana Montero, filmmaker and film critic Enrique Colina, visual artist Pedro de Oraá , star Rosita Fornés, historian Eusebio Leal, journalist Hugo J. Byrne, cartoonist Paco Prats and writer Sigfredo Ariel, among others.