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Life and career
Juan Abreu (born 1952) is a Cuban writer, visual artist and columnist. Abreu holds a degree in Fine Arts from the School of Fine Arts of San Alejandro, Havana. He migrated to Miami in 1980, as part of the Mariel boatlift generation of Cuban migrants arriving in the United States. After living in Miami for several years, he moved to Barcelona, where he currently resides.

In 1983, Abreu co-founded the magazine Revista Mariel in Miami with fellow Cuban authors Reinaldo Arenas and Roberto Valero. Up until the time when it ceased publication in 1985, due to financial difficulties, Revista Mariel published work by Cuban writers living on the island as well as other Latin American and European writers.

Written in Havana between 1974 and 1975, Abreu's A la sombra del mar: jornadas Cubanas con Reinaldo Arenas (1998) narrates Reinaldo Arenas' struggle and life experiences in Cuba, mapping aspects of the lives of political prisoners like himself and Arenas and the social history of Cuban migrant writers of his generation. There are also futuristic elements in Abreu´s writing. His first novel, Garbageland (2001) is considered by critics as belonging to the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.

Abreu has also written non-fiction works including ''Gimnasio. Emanaciones de una rutina (2002), and in 2018 he wrote the memoir Debajo de la Mesa. Memorias'' (2018). His works have been translated into German, Italian, French and Catalán.

Abreu has edited the anthology Cuentos desde Miami (2004), which features short fiction of other Cuban writers in the diaspora including Carlos Victoria, Lorenzo García Vega, Guillermo Rosales y Fernando Villaverde.

In his blog, Emanaciones, Juan Abreu explores issues around his writing life and social commentary. Entries from his blog from 2008-2011, have been adapted and published in an eponymous book.

Abreu's artwork has been part of numerous solo and group art exhibitions in France, Spain and the United States. He is the recipient of the 1993-94 Oscar B. Cintas Fellowship for Painting, and his painting is part of the permanent collection at the Whitney Museum in New York and the Cuban Museum of Art and Culture, Miami, Florida, among others.

Literary Papers
Manuscript materials of Juan Abreu (Juan Abreu Papers) are held at Princeton University Library.

Works

 * A la sombra de las exhortaciones (1985)
 * A la sobra del mar (1998)
 * Garbageland (2001)
 * Gimnasio: emanaciones de una rutina (2002)
 * Orlan Veinticinco (2003)
 * Accidente (2004)
 * Cuentos desde Miami (2004)
 * Cinco cervezas (2005)
 * Diosa (2006)
 * Emanaciones (2008-2011)
 * El reto (2013)
 * El pájaro (2017)
 * Rebelión en Catanya (2017)
 * El gen de dios (2018)
 * De sexo (2018)
 * Debajo de la mesa. Memorias (2018)

Children's books

 * El gigante Tragaceibas (2008)
 * El niño que quiso ser excremento (2008)