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Manuel C. Diaz was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1942. In 1966 he was imprisoned for trying to leave the country in a boat. Along with four thousand other Cuban political prisoners, he was pardoned in 1979. Since that date, he has resided in the city of Miami. He has written several books: El ano del ras de mar (1993), a short novel in which he narrated part of the horror that the Cuban people have lived through. A paradise under the stars (1996), a collection of short stories. The novels Subasta de suenos (2001) and La virgen del malecon (2013). And From Cadiz to Normandia (2016), a compilation of travel chronicles.
He is a founding member of the PEN Club of Exiled Cuban Writers. He currently writes opinion pieces and book reviews for El Nuevo Herald. His works have appeared in different anthologies and literary magazines.
His new book, Escritores cubanos exiliados: Sesenta resenas literarias, is a compendium of those he wrote for El Nuevo Herald for more than twenty years. But it is also a tribute to the exiled Cuban writers, many of whom died without ever being able to return to their homeland, such as Lydia Cabrera Enrique Labrador Ruiz, Gaston Baquero, Jose Sanchez-Boudy, Eugenio Florit, Ana Rosa Nunez, Reinaldo Arenas, Roberto Valero, Heberto Padilla, Jose Lorenzo Fuentes, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Armando Alvarez Bravo, Reinaldo Bragado, Jose Ignacio Rasco, Elio Alba Bufill, Ramon Barquin, Enrique Ros, Jose Miguel Gonzalez-Llorente and many others.
