The journalist Mauricio Vicent, 60, died suddenly this morning in Madrid as a result of a cardiorespiratory crisis, caused by an asthma attack, according to sources from the Grupo Prisa.
Son of the writer Manuel Vicent, he worked as a correspondent for the chain Ser and the newspaper El PaÃs for more than three decades in Havana, from where he narrated the social, political, musical and human chronicle of Cuba in a work that was recognized with numerous awards. .
In 1998 he won the prize for the best journalistic work abroad granted by the International Press Club of Spain, and a year later he was a finalist for the Cirilo RodrÃguez Journalism Award.
Mauricio Vicent (Madrid 1963) also wrote several books, directed a film and collaborated with the Cuban cartoonist Juan Padrón in a comic about the Caribbean island entitled Crónicas de La Habana, in which he narrates his memories upon arrival at the island in 1984.
“My story is an excuse to tell with humor what that Cuba was like, very different from the current one, when the socialist orbit still existed, and in which nobody imagined what was going to happen, a more drinkable country for the people, where everything it was easier”, commented the journalist, who fled from Madrid de la Movida, in an interview with EFE in 2017 on the occasion of the publication of the graphic novel.
Vicent, who studied Law and Psychology in Cuba, was also a contributor to Radio France International and other European media, and returned to Spain in 2011 from Cuba.
