Question: What were both Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Sylvia Plath?
Context: The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath.  Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963, the novel is semi-autobiographical, with the names of places and people changed.  The book is often regarded as a "roman à clef" since the protagonist's descent into mental illness parallels Plath's own experiences with what may have been clinical depression.  Plath died by suicide a month after its first UK publication.  The novel was published under Plath's name for the first time in 1967 and was not published in the United States until 1971, in accordance with the wishes of both Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, and her mother.  The novel has been translated into nearly a dozen languages.  The novel, though dark, is often read in high school English classes. The Sylvia Plath effect is the phenomenon that poets are more susceptible to mental illness than other creative writers.  The term was coined in 2001 by psychologist James C. Kaufman.  Although many studies (e.g., Andreasen, 1987; Jamison, 1989; Ludwig, 1995) have demonstrated that creative writers are prone to experience mental illness, this relationship has not been examined in depth.  This early finding has been dubbed "the Sylvia Plath effect", and implications and possibilities for future research are discussed.  Kaufman's work further demonstrated that female poets were more likely to experience mental illness than any other class of writers.  In addition, female poets were more likely to be mentally ill than other eminent women, such as politicians, actresses, and artists. Sylvia Plath ( ; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.  Born in Boston, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College at the University of Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a poet and writer.  She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956, and they lived together in the United States and then in England.  They had two children, Frieda and Nicholas, before separating in 1962.  Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life, and was treated multiple times with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).  She committed suicide in 1963. Guillermo Cabrera Infante (] ; Gibara, 22 April 1929 – 21 February 2005) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, screenwriter, and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín. Sylvia is a 2003 British biographical drama film directed by Christine Jeffs and starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Jared Harris, and Michael Gambon.  It tells the true story of the romance between prominent poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.  The film begins with their meeting at Cambridge in 1956 and ends with Sylvia Plath's suicide in 1963. Aurelia Frances Plath (née Schober; April 26, 1906 – March 11, 1994) was the wife of Otto Emil Plath, the mother of the American poet Sylvia Plath, and her brother Warren, and the grandmother of Frieda Rebecca Hughes and Nicholas Farrar Hughes. Cuban literature is the literature written in Cuba or outside the island by Cubans in Spanish language.  It began to find its voice in the early 19th century.  The major works published in Cuba during that time were of an abolitionist character.  Notable writers of this genre include Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda and Cirilo Villaverde.  Following the abolition of slavery in 1886, the focus of Cuban literature shifted.  Dominant themes of independence and freedom were exemplified by José Martí, who led the modernista movement in Latin American literature.  Writers such as the poet Nicolás Guillén focused on literature as social protest.  Others, including Dulce María Loynaz, José Lezama Lima and Alejo Carpentier, dealt with more personal or universal issues.  And a few more, such as Reinaldo Arenas and Guillermo Cabrera Infante, earned international recognition in the postrevolutionary era. Guillermo Cabrera González (born February 28, 1982) is a Dominican Republic former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events.  Cabrera competed only in the men's 200 m backstroke at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, as the Dominican Republic's first ever swimmer in Olympic history.  He posted a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:07.17 from the Caribbean Islands Swimming Championships in Oranjestad, Aruba.  He challenged five other swimmers in heat one, including Hong Kong's Alex Fong, who later became one of city's most popular singers.  He raced to fourth place by a 2.75-second deficit behind winner Fong in 2:08.22.  Cabrera failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-first overall in the prelims. "Ennui" is a sonnet by Sylvia Plath published for the first time in November 2006 in the online literary journal "Blackbird" .  Sylvia Plath wrote the Petrarchan sonnet “Ennui” during her undergraduate years at Smith College. Otto Emil Plath (April 13, 1885 – November 5, 1940) was a German American author, a professor of biology and German at Boston University, and an entomologist, with a specific expertise on bees.  He was the father of American poet Sylvia Plath, Warren Plath, and the husband of Aurelia Plath.  He wrote the 1934 book, "Bumblebees and Their Ways".  He is notable for being the probable subject of one of his daughter's most well-known poems, "Daddy".
Answer: novelist