Cuba

Johan Moya Ramis 

Johan Moya Ramis has a BA in Theology and works as a librarian in the José Martí National Library of Cuba.  Graduate of the eighth session (2004-2005) of the Onelio Jorge Cardoso Center…...

Jorge Olivera Castillo 

Jorge Olivera Castillo (born 1961) is a well-known dissident Cuban author of numerous novels, short story collections, poetry anthologies, and political commentaries. Banned in his home country, his…...

Omar Pérez 

Omar Pérez grew up in Havana, the city where he was born in 1964, and earned a degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Havana in 1987. By his early twenties he had become…...

Juan Carlos Flores 

Juan Carlos Flores was born in Havana in 1962.  For decades he has lived in Alamar, a community in eastern Havana said to be the largest housing project in the world.  Writing as an outsider…...

Luis Rafael Hernández 

Luis Rafael Hernández's twelve books include Los hijos de Adán (short stories, 2002), Colómbico (poetry, 2003), Eliseo Diego: donde la demasiada luz (essay, 2004), Mulato (youth…...

Belkis Cuza Malé 

Belkis Cuza Malé was born in 1942 in Guantánamo, Cuba. She studied humanities in la Universidad de Oriente. In 1967 she married the Cuban poet Heberto Padilla. Though initially a supporter…...

Guillermo Rosales 

The Cuban writer Guillermo Rosales committed suicide in Miami in 1993. He was 47 years old. Like William Figueras, the protagnoist of his novel, My Angel, he left Cuba in 1979 for Florida. "I am not a…...

Reina María Rodriguez 

Reina María Rodríguez's most recent collection El libro de las clientas was published in 2005 (Havana: Editorial Letras Cubanas). Among her previous books are Bosque negro (2005), Otras…...

Nancy Alonso 

Nancy Alonso was born in Havana and graduated from the University of Havana with a degree in biology in 1972. She was a professor and researcher at the Havana Institute of Medical Science for more than…...

Norberto Fuentes 

Norberto Fuentes was born in Havana in 1943. He is a writer and journalist. He has published Hemingway in Cuba and Ernest Hemingway: Rediscovered, both available in English, as well as Dulces guerreros…...

Rito Ramón Aroche 

Rito Ramón Aroche was born in Havana in 1961. Las fundaciones (poetry) won the 2006 Gaceta de Cuba prize. Other recent collections include Del rio que durando se destruye (Letras Cubanas, 2005),…...

Ernesto René Rodriguez 

Ernesto René Rodríguez (Havana, 1968) is a prose writer, poet, and videographer. He has directed the videos of several musical acts including Porno Para Ricardo, Amaury Trineo, Sociedad Habana…...

Leonardo Padura 

Leonardo Padura was born in 1955 in Havana and lives in Cuba. He is a novelist, essayist, journalist and scriptwriter. Havana Black has been published in Cuba, Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Germany and France.…...

Raúl Rivero 

Raúl Rivero is one of Cuba's best-known dissident journalists and a figurehead of the country's beleaguered independent press. He was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment,…...

Ena Lucia Portela 

Born in Havana in 1972, Ena Lucia Portela is one of the most remarkable young writers coming out of Cuba. Like many of her generation, she is not very widely published. A short story of hers appeared in…...

Eduardo del Llano 

Eduardo del Llano has published four novels and two collections of short stories, for which he has won a number of prestigious prizes. He was professor of Latin American Art at the University of Havana…...

Francisco García González 

Francisco García González was born in Havana in 1965 and has a degree in history from Havana University. He is a writer, editor, and screenwriter. His short story collections include Juegos…...

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