Pedro Pérez Sarduy (born 1943) is an Afro-Cuban writer and broadcaster, who has published poetry and fiction, in addition to journalism.
[2] He said in a 2016 interview: "When I was young I won a short story competition and in 1962 I went to Havana when the National School of Arts (ENA) was being created.
[4] From 1965 until 1979, he was a current affairs journalist for Cuban National Radio, and also worked on television on the first African and Caribbean music show in Cuba.
[1] His poetry has been published in three collections – Surrealidad (1967), Cumbite (1987) and Melecón Sigloveinte (2005), as well as appearing in The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse (eds Stewart Brown and Mark McWatt, 2005) and other publications.
He is the author of one novel, translated from Spanish as The Maids of Havana, which is based on his mother's memories of life as an Afro-Cuban from 1938 onwards,[6][7] and was described by poet and critic Nancy Morejón as "a chronicle of an un-chronicled social psychology".