1930 Ojocaliente, Zacatecas, Mexico / 1988 Havana, Cuba

Writer and Plastic Artist.

In 1951 he entered the San Alejandro School to study drawing and modeling, but left it two years later because of the terrible teaching and the difficulties that existed. Since 1951 he exhibited regularly in Cuba and was a member of the important Grupo Los Once. In 1954 he moved to Paris. During his stay in the French capital he received a course in comparative Semitic religions at the School of Higher Studies of the Soborna.

He returned to Cuba in 1959. He was co-editor of La Tertulia Editions. He was Head of the cultural plan of Combat and responsible for Hoy Domingo, supplement of the newspaper HOY. He worked as a painting teacher at the National School of Art in Cubanacán.

Jamís became one of the best known Cuban authors abroad, as a painter he exhibited on various occasions and was Cultural Counselor of the Embassy of Cuba in Mexico.