Persona Non Grata, An Envoy in Castro’s Cuba

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Jorge Edwards (born July 29, 1931, Santiago, Chile—died March 17, 2023, Madrid, Spain) was a Chilean writer, literary critic, and diplomat who gained notoriety with the publication of Persona non grata (1973; Eng. trans. Persona non grata), a memoir of his experiences as the Chilean ambassador to Cuba in the early 1970s. Critical of the revolutionary socialist regime of Cuba’s Fidel Castro, the book created controversy among Latin American writers. In 1999, Edwards was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Hispanic world.