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Leonardo Padura

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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. It is the second of the Havana Quartet of Lieutenant Mario Conde novels to be published in English.

Articles by Leonardo Padura

Nine Nights with Amada Luna

By Leonardo Padura

In the beginning was the fascination.The area around La Rampa, with its movie theaters, clubs, and restaurants, had become the heart of Havana's throbbing night life. I was a shabbily dressed country…

Translated from Spanish by Cristina de la Torre

from Havana Black

By Leonardo Padura

“And get here quick!” he screamed at a sky that seemed languid and becalmed, as if still painted from October’s deceptive palette of blue: he screamed, arms crossed, chest bare, bellowing…

Translated from Spanish by Peter Bush

Puerta de Alcalá

By Leonardo Padura

It loved to happen. -Marcus Aurelius (Written over the doorway to Seymour and Buddy Glass’s bedroom in J. D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey)He had always heard that to name disasters was sure…

Translated from Spanish by Claudia Lightfoot

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