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Andricaín, Sergio, 1956
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Sergio Andricaín was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1956. He is a journalist, literary scholar, editor and writer. He studied sociology at the University of Havana and in Costa Rica. He was a researcher at the Juan Marinello Cultural Center in Cuba, and in 1991 a consultant for the National Reading Program in Costa Rica.
During the 1990s, he was an editor of the UNESCO publications Colección biblioteca del promotor de lectura(1993) and Niños y niñas del maíz (1995), as well as the children's magazine for Colombia's Batuta National Foundation for Youth and Children Symphonic Orchestras. As a writer, he has worked for several newspapers and magazines in Cuba, Costa Rica, Colombia, Spain and the United States.
Along with Antonio Orlando Rodríguez, he created Fundación Cuatrogatos, a nonprofit that promotes Spanish-language reading and cultural and educational projects in Miami.