Remembered best for his 1967 novel Tres Tristes Tigres, Infante was the 1997 recipient of the prestigious Premio Cervantes. Also a screenwriter and journalist, he co-wrote the screenplay for Vanishing Point and, for a time, headed a Communist literary publication known as Lunes de Revolucion. After earning a journalism degree from the University of Havana and subsequently being arrested for publishing a profanity-filled short story, he worked as a movie reviewer for Carteles magazine.
