Miguel Barnet is a novelist, poet, ethnographer, and expert on Afro-Cuban culture. Barnet came from a prominent Cuban family of Catalan descent. He spent part of his childhood in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., and was fluent in English.
Miguel Ángel Barnet Lanza (born January 28, 1940) is a Cuban writer, novelist and ethnographer. Known as an expert on Afro-Cuban culture, he studied sociology at the University of Havana, under Fernando Ortiz, the pioneer of Cuban…