Jose Carlos Orges Prada was born in Havana, Cuba on December 26th, 1974. His parents, born and raised in the eastern province of Holguin, instilled in him from an early age the habit of reading and...view moreJose Carlos Orges Prada was born in Havana, Cuba on December 26th, 1974. His parents, born and raised in the eastern province of Holguin, instilled in him from an early age the habit of reading and studying. He starts writing poems in his adolescence. He develops a love of the arts that led him to study English philology in Madrid, Spain after abandoning his native Cuba in 1994. He lives in Sweden, Spain, and the USA.view less