Teresa Casuso Morín

Lorenza Teresa Inocencia Casuso y Morín (better known as "Teté" Casuso; Madruga, Cuba 10 August 1912 – Miami, USA 28 July 1994) was a prominent Cuban intellectual, who fought for democracy and freedom in Cuba. As a writer, she worked in various genres, including novel, theater, chronicle, poetry, as well as radio and cinematographic libretos. Her journalistic work appeared in several publications in Cuba, Mexico and the US. She also worked as a translator and drama teacher; and was an actress of stage and screen. Along with several other middle-class, educated women writer contemporaries - Emilia Bernal, Lydia Cabrera, Ana Maria Simo, Hilda Perera Soto, and Rita Geada - Casuso left Cuba after the 1959 Revolution.

Biography Lorenza Teresa Inocencia Casuso y Morín was born in Madruga, 10 August 1912.

During her stay in Mexico in the 1940s, she appeared in a number of films as a supporting actress, including El tigre de Jalisco in 1947.

She participated actively in the student struggles against the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado and during Castro's exile in Mexico, helped in the preparation of the Granma expedition. She raised money for both arms and the Granma yacht that would take the revolutionaries back to Cuba.

Casuso was married to Cuban writer Pablo de la Torriente Brau, who was killed fighting for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.

Selected works 1934: Versos míos de la libreta tuya 1938: Panorama de México 1944: Los Ausentes. México 1951: Recuerdos de un viaje a Europa 1961: Castro and Cuba 1963: Cuba Y Castro

Unpublished 1955: Utopía 1955: Aprendiz de ángel 1956: Bienvenida la vida