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Alexis Díaz-Pimienta

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Name
Díaz-Pimienta, Alexis

Bertsolarism

Main specialization
Improviser
Specializations
Researcher
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Biography
Narrator, poet and researcher. He is a member of the Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba and Asociación Iberoamericana de la Décima y el Verso Improvisado. He works as an improviser and researcher at the Antonio María Romeu Provincial Music Center of Habana, which he has represented in festivals and congresses in Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Italy and Spain. Being and specialist on improvised oral poetry, he has lectured on courses and in conferences at the University of La Habana, Antioquia (Colombia), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Cadiz and Almeria. In 1996 he was awarded the Medal for the Cuban Culture for his artistic-literary work. Among his research work, we can find Teoría de la improvisación: primeras páginas del repentismo, 1998. The same year he received a music research grant from the Documentación Musical de Andalucía center for the work published together with Natalia Padilla, El trovo: la poesía oral improvisada en Andalucía Oriental (1998). He has published books of poetry, tales and tales written in verse, which have won national and international awards.