Nicolás Guillén (Camagüey, 1902–Havana, 1989) was the National Poet of Cuba. His extensive work began early on, with articles in local papers and poems that weren't published at the time. Among his poetry collections, the most notable are Motivos de son (1930); Sóngoro Cosongo (1931); West Indies, Ltd. (1934); España. Poema en cuatro angustias y una esperanza (1937); Cantos para soldados y sones para turistas (1937); El son entero (1947); La paloma de vuelo popular (1958); Tengo (1964), Poemas de amor (1964); El gran zoo (1967); La rueda dentada (1972); and El diario que a diario (1972). His prose has been collected in Prosa de prisa, four volumes put together by Ángel Augier, the last of which appeared in 2006. His political participation as part of Cuba’s Popular Socialist Party caused him to be exiled during the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship (1952-1958). He founded the National Cuban Writers' and Artists' Union (1961) and was the president until his death in 1989. His work has been published into over twenty languages and studied at universities in every continent.