Nicolás Guillén

CTL-E-0450 · Person · unspecified

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Cuban poet (1902–1989), Cuba's national poet, whose work reached English readers through Langston Hughes's 1948 translations during Hughes's Chicago Defender years.

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Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-134; source research type(s): Person. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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