Fayad Jamís Bernal. He was a famous writer and visual artist who was brought to Cuba from his native Mexico since he was a child. He carried out various tasks, some of them related to plastic art, as a draftsman, ceramic and glass carving worker, and mosaic restorer at the National Museum. He collaborates with newspapers and magazines, both in Cuba and abroad and works as a painting professor at the National School of Art. He was born on October 27, 1930 in Ojocaliente, a remote town in the State of Zacatecas, where northern Mexico rises, and died in Havana of a painful illness on November 13, 1988. His father Yunes is of Lebanese origin and Concepción (Concha) his mother, a native of Mexico. 1936 He arrives in Cuba together with his relatives, who remain in Havana until 1937. 1937-1943 He toured the island with his family Florida Palma Soriano, Contramaestre, Las Cruces, Aguacate, Bayamo, etc. 1943-1947 They move to the town of Guayos, former province of Las Villas. Today it belongs to the municipality of Cabaiguán, province of Sancti-Spíritus, where they lived for several years. There he began to develop his art of writing and drawing. He enrolled in the Sancti-Spíritus high school and at night he received shorthand and typing classes at the existing academy in the town.