Novelist H.G. Carrillo died from covid-19 this past spring. I knew him at George Washington University, where we both taught creative writing, and at the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, where he chaired ...

Carillo (”Hache” to his friends, and H.G. Carrillo to readers of his kaleidoscopic fiction, in which he plumbed the meaning of Cuban American identity) created an oasis of asymmetry that ...

H.G. Carrillo lived most of his adult life as a Cuban-American novelist who fled Havana a child – then his recent death from COVID-19 revealed his origin story was one of his greatest fictions.

Carrillo (“Hache” to his friends, and H.G. Carrillo to readers of his kaleidoscopic fiction, in which he plumbed the meaning of Cuban American identity) created an oasis of asymmetry that ...

Hache Carrillo’s reputation took a shocking turn after his death from COVID-19 in early 2020. About a month after he died, the Washington Post published an obituary about his life, then ...

After Hache Carrillo died, his friends, readers and husband learned that almost everything about him was made up – even his ‘Cuban’ heritage. Sign in or Subscribe See Offers.

In H.G. Carrillo’s 2004 debut novel, Loosing My Espanish, history teacher Oscar Delossantos uses his final days at a Jesuit high school to show his students the meaning of personal and cultur… ...

I’m talking about the late Hache Carrillo, a rising, award-winning literary talent whose reputation grew quickly after the publication of his 2004 novel, “Loosing My Espanish,” about a Cuban ...

A number of Cuban American bloggers have been upset with the late H.G. Carrillo, putting his faux-Cuban pose in the same trash bucket as U.S. Rep. George Santos, seen here at the U.S. Capitol on ...