While in jail he completed his first novel, a narrative of the Afro-Cuban movement entitled Lord, Praised be Thou!  
He was arrested for signing a manifesto denouncing Gerardo Machado y Morales.  While in jail he completed his first novel, a narrative of the Afro-Cuban movement entitled Lord, Praised be Thou!  The Haitian Revolution inspired his novel The Kingdom of This World, and in that work's preface he espoused the theme of his writings: "What is the whole history of the America but a chronicle of the marvelous-real?"  The author of Explosion in the Cathedral, his most famous work was the novel The Lost Steps.  FTP, identify this Cuban writer who coined the term "magical realism."
He was arrested for signing a manifesto denouncing Gerardo Machado y Morales.  
Alejo Carpentier