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Guillermo Cabrera Infante, the Cervantes Prize-winner who was a political exile from his native Cuba, died in London on Monday at age 75. A brief Agence France Presse report, says that according to his French publisher, the writer, whose novels include Three Trapped Tigers and Mea Cuba, “caught an infection in hospital where he was being treated for a fall.”

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.