Cuban poet Cintio Vitier dead at 88Cintio Vitier, the Cuban poet, essayist and novelist, who won the Juan Juan (IPA: [xwan]) is a Spanish form of the given name John (q.v.). It was the 55th most popular name in the United States as of 2003. Rulfo prize for literature in 2002 and was considered one of Cuba's foremost intellectuals, has died aged 88. Local television reported, without providing details, the death of Vitier, who also won Cuba's National Literature Prize in 1988 and was awarded the title of Officer of Arts and Letters Arts and Letters (1966-1998) was an American Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. Owned and bred by American sportsman, and noted philanthropist Paul Mellon, and trained by future Hall of Famer Elliott Burch, the colt began racing at age two. by France. Born in Key West, Florida “Key West” redirects here. For other uses, see Key West (disambiguation). Key West is a city and an island of the same name near the southernmost tip of the Florida Keys in Monroe County, Florida, United States. on 21 September, 1921, Vitier helped start the journal "Origins," which brought together some of the island's leading intellectuals. His most famous works include "From Pena Pobre," and volumes of poems including "Evenings" and "Testimonies." He was also awarded the Order of Jose Marti by then-Cuban President Fidel Castro Noun 1. Fidel Castro - Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927) Castro, Fidel Castro Ruz for his studies on the Cuban independence figure. 
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