Delia Fiallo, the beloved Cuban writer known as the “mother of the Latin American soap opera,” died on Tuesday, a source close to the scribe tells CNN.
She was 96.While Fiallo’s passing was reported earlier in the day by The Televisa network, the cause of her death was not made clear.Born on July 4, 1924 in Havana, Cuba, Fiallo first entered into the radionovela space in 1949, making the leap to telenovelas in 1957, with an adaptation of her radionovela, Soraya.Some of her most well-known original works include Cristal, Esmeralda, La Zulianita, María del Mar, Lucecita, La señorita Elena and Tu Mundo y el mío.
She wrote more than 40 works for TV and the radio, in total, which were adapted dozens of times, on multiple continents.While Fiallo
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