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matanzas , cuba 200px journalist arrabal '' an award-winner at the 1981 prix italia festival awards , `` the evil years '' nordvision awards 1989 1973 -lrb- radio sweden -rrb- , `` swedish-cuban humberto lópez y guerra 12 august 1945 1960s -- present humberto mayorca4 2.jpg humberto lópez y guerra
 humberto lópez y guerra screenwriter , film director , journalist and novelist
humberto lópez y guerra

humberto lopez y guerra -lrb- born 1945 -rrb- is a swedish-cuban director and novelist .
he began his film career 1960 producing and directing a series of documentary films for the cuban institute of art and cinema , icaic .
in 1963 he was given through election a scholarship to study film directing at the cinema superior school at babelsberg berlin , germany .
after graduating from babelsberg 's he returned to cuba where he directed his film `` juventud 67 '' -lrb- youth , 67 -rrb- .
however , he went back to europe in 1968 and he moved to sweden .
in 1976 he directed his film `` federico garcia lorca : death in granada '' produced by the swedish television .
in october 1980 the new york times described the transmission of the film by spanish television in june that same year as attracting `` one of the largest audiences in the history of spanish television .
in 1978 he directed two documentaries titled `` spain two years after franco '' , produced for swedish television .
in 1979 he directed `` arrabal '' , a documentary about the spanish writer fernando arrabal .
in 1981 this film represented sweden in the international television festival prix italia .
in 1980 he directed for swedish television his film `` det langa straffet '' -lrb- the sentence -rrb- , about huber matos .
the sentence represented sweden in emmy awards in new york in 1981 .
in 1987 he wrote and directed `` ondskans år '' a tv film in three parts about nazism in sweden during the second world war .
the film was very successful in sweden .
in 1989 received nordvision award for best television series of the nordic countries .
in 1989 he wrote and directed `` castro 's cuba '' , tv series in three parts , which was exhibited in the united states , latin america and australia .
the most complete tv series on cuba that was done in those years .
in 2012 , he published his first novel `` the traitor from prague '' presented this year in cities like madrid , stockholm , new york and as well in the miami international book fair -lrb- nov. 2012 -rrb- . ''
-lsb- http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/archives?p_multi=en | & p_product = en & p_theme = realcities2 & p_action = search & p_maxdocs = 200 & s_site = miami & s_trackval = en & s_search_type = keyword & s_dispstring = el % 20traidor % 20de % 20praga % 20and % 20date -lrb- all -rrb- & p_field_advanced-0 = & p_text_advanced-0 = -lrb- el % 20traidor % 20de % 20praga -rrb- & xcal_numdocs = 20 & p_perpage = 10 & p_sort = ymd_date :d & xcal_useweights = no -rsb- '' the miami herald calls the novel a milestone in the genre of espionage in the spanish language literature .
