Nicolás GuillénNicolás Guillén
Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista was a Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer. He is best remembered as the national poet of Cuba.Guillén was born in Camagüey, Cuba. He studied law at the University of Havana, but he soon abandoned a legal career and worked as a typographer and journalist.His poetry was published in various magazines from the early 1920s and his first collection, Motivos de son, appeared in 1930.
