Tag: Cuban literature

She is 80 years old, but a burst of freshness prevails over her. “I am a very young octogenarian,” she ...

Located meters from the main entrance of the Santo Ángel Custodio church, on Compostela Street, she seems to walk slowly ...

The writer Leonardo Padura assures that it is not easy to write in Cuba, but he acknowledges that his situation ...

His goatee, his eternal pipe, his fine humor, made him a hybrid of an English lord and a Cuban prankster.

The book “El cine según García Márquez” by critic, journalist and professor Joel del Río will be presented again as ...

The work of the Havana author shares with “Violeta", by Isabel Allende; “Todo va a mejorar”, Almudena Grandes’ posthumous work ...

At just over 30 years of age, she has already accumulated fifty published titles and affirms that literature has saved ...

In Buenos Aires he presented his most recent book: “Personas decentes.” This Thursday he spoke at the National Library with ...

The author of numerous children’s books and radio scripts, Niurki Pérez García also writes comic strip scripts.

Once I wrote a story in which Martí (I am referring to José Martí, the National Hero, sorry if I ...

Leonardo Padura, the most published, most read, most translated and most controversial Cuban writer today, is ending this fateful 2020 ...

On December 7, it was 30 years since the death in New York of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990). It ...

In his new novel Como polvo en el viento, Leonardo Padura (Havana, 1955) narrates, through constant and temporary vertiginous ups ...

Help us keep OnCuba alive The assassination in Mexico of Leon Trotsky at the hands of Spaniard Ramón Mercader by ...

Leonardo Padura (Havana, 1955) has said that he is not the most talented of his generation, but he is the ...

The first installment of a tetralogy of reedited novels by Cuban writer Leonardo Padura under the title Las cuatro estaciones ...

Leonardo Padura regrets not being Paul Auster. Not so much for the work of the American writer, whom he openly ...

Born on April 22, 1929, in the city of Gibara, which previously belonged to the province of Oriente, today Holguín, ...

Juan Carlos Roque García (1960), who is an absolute man of radio and whose voice internationalized Radio Netherland, that oasis ...

Writer Leonardo Padura, considered Cuba’s author with the greatest international projection, this November 26 was named a member of the ...

A video conference from Vedado to Upper West Side in New York took us to Edmundo Desnoes’ living room. At ...

In different ways, Pedro Juan Gutierrez offers us a self-portrait in each of his books. On this occasion, he intentionally ...

U.S. university professor Sara Cooper is the founder of a veritable publisher’s dream: Cubanabooks. The publishing house has already begun ...

Anton Arrufat´s strange last name comes from his maternal grandparents, who were born in Lebanon and died in Cuba. His ...

A new baseball season starts in Cuba. To say "new" is just a phrase. Everyone knows that the National Series ...