• Submitted by: manso
• Society
• 05 / 11 / 2011

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2011.05.10 - 20:23:20 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Havana, Cuba.- Journalist and writer Jorge Timossi, founder of the Prensa Latina news agency and winner of the “Jose Marti” National Journalism Prize for the work of a lifetime, died on Monday in Havana at the age of 75.

Timossi, a skilled and audacious reporter, covered numerous international events, among them the US invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965, the revolutions of Libya and Iran, and the fascist coup against President Salvador Allende in Chile, the National Television Newscast reported.

He was a Prensa Latina correspondent in several nations and covered summits of the Non-Aligned Movement and several visits of Commander in Chief to different countries.

Timossi was born in 1936 in Argentina and graduated as a technician of Chemistry, but was attracted by letters since he was very young.

He joined the correspondent’s office of Prensa Latina in Rio de Janeiro in 1959. Years later he settled in Havana and became a Cuban citizen.

In l979, he received the prize given by the International Organization of Journalists.

The author of a large number of books of poetry, short stories and testimony, he was granted the “Felix Varela” Order and the “Felix Elmuza” Medal, as well as the “Jose Marti” National Journalism Prize in 1999.

He was the vice-president of the Cuban Book Institute and director of the Literary Agency of Royalties.

By express wish of Timossi, his corpse was cremated in Havana.

(ACN)