Gil Cuadros

Gil Cuadros (22 ga Yuli, 1962  - 29 ga Agusta, 1996) mawaki ne ɗan luwaɗi ɗan Amurka, mai rubutun makala, kuma mai yin yumbu wanda aka san shi da rubuce-rubucensa kan tasirin cutar kanjamau. 

 Tarihin Rayuwa 
Cuadros ya girma a Montebello, California tare da iyayensa daga Arewacin California. Ya halarci Makarantar Sakandare ta Schurr, inda ya haɗu da mai ɗaukar hoto Laura Aguilar, wacce suka ci gaba da kasancewa abokai a tsawon rayuwarsa. Bayan kammala karatun sakandare, Cuadros ya halarci Kwalejin Al'umma ta Gabashin Los Angeles na tsawon shekara ɗaya kafin ya koma Kwalejin Birnin Pasadena . Cuadros ya yi aiki a wani dakin daukar hoto inda ya haɗu da masoyinsa, John Edward Milosch. A shekarar 1987, Milosch ya mutu sakamakon cutar kanjamau kuma an gano Cuadros yana da cutar. "Gil Cuadros; Poet, Essayist Tackled AIDS Subject". The Los Angeles Times. 10 September 1996. Retrieved 14 March 2016.  

Laura Aguilar ta ƙarfafa Cuadros ya halarci taron rubuce-rubuce na Terry Wolverton ga mutanen da ke ɗauke da cutar HIV a Cibiyar 'Yan Luwaɗi da 'Yan Madigo ta Los Angeles, wanda Cuadros ya yi a shekarar 1988, wanda hakan ya haifar da sha'awar rubutu. Duk da cewa an gaya masa cewa yana da watanni shida kafin ya mutu, Cuadros ya rayu shekaru takwas bayan an gano cutar, yana mai cewa "rubutu a zahiri ya ceci rayuwata ko kuma aƙalla ya tsawaita rayuwata". [1]

Cuadros ya lashe kyautar Brody Literature Fellowship, a shekarar 1991 kuma yana ɗaya daga cikin waɗanda suka fara karɓar tallafin PEN Center USA/West ga marubuta masu ɗauke da cutar HIV. "Gil Cuadros; Poet, Essayist Tackled AIDS Subject". The Los Angeles Times. 10 September 1996. Retrieved 14 March 2016.  Littafin Cuadros kaɗai da aka buga a rayuwarsa shine City of God (City Lights Publishers, 1994). An buga wani littafi na labarai da waƙoƙi bayan mutuwarsa, My Body is Paper, a shekarar 2024, wanda City Lights ma,  Allatson, Paul (2007-01-01). "My Bones Shine in the Dark". Aztlán. 32 (1): 23–52. doi:10.1525/azt.2007.32.1.23. ta wallafa kuma an zaɓe shi don kyautar POZ ta 2024 don Mafi Kyawun Adabi 

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Rukuni:Mutuwan 1996
Rukuni:Haihuwan 1962