Eliseo Diego. Muestrario del mundo o libro de las maravillas de bolona, Havana, 1968. In Spanish. Autograpf of Eliseo Diego. He was a Cuban poet praised for his lyric poetry, and short stories. He published his first collection of poetry, En las Oscuras Manos del Olvido at 22. He was part of the Cuban literary group Origines in the 1950s. Praised as a lyric poet and writer of short stories, he was also a translator of fairy tales, and some of his poems were directly based on fairy tales. For Diego, fairy tales were also instrumental in the literacy education of the Cuban population after the 1959 Cuban Revolution. Awards: Maximo Gorki Award 1979 for his Spanish versions of poems by great Russian writers, Premio Nacional de Literatura de Cuba 1986, International Award for Latin American and Caribbean Literature Juan Rulfo 1993. SKUZLO000293