Edmundo Desnoes (Havana, Cuba, 1930), is a Cuban writer author of the novel "Memorias del subdesarrollo" ("Memories of Underdevelopment"), a complex story depicting the alienation of a Cuban bourgeois intellectual struggling to adapt to the process of the Revolution staying on the island after his family decides to leave the country. He originally called the work "Inconsolable Memories" in the first English edition. The book was adapted in 1968 into the seminal Cuban film of the same title "Memorias del Subdesarrollo (Memories of Underdevelopment") by the director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, the name by which it is also known in English.