{"id":261481,"date":"2022-12-04T13:41:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T18:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=261481"},"modified":"2022-12-04T13:41:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T18:41:38","slug":"elaine-vilar-madruga-i-am-from-a-generation-that-is-not-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/elaine-vilar-madruga-i-am-from-a-generation-that-is-not-silent\/","title":{"rendered":"Elaine Vilar Madruga: \u201cI am from a generation that is not silent\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elaine Vilar Madruga was born in Havana in 1989. She graduated in Playwriting at the Higher Institute of Art (ISA). Her catalog as a writer of hers consigns, so far, fifty titles published by publishers in Cuba, Spain, the United States, Canada, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Italy, France and Mexico. The figure does not include reprints or translations. She practices narrative, poetry, journalism, criticism and dramaturgy.<\/span><\/p>\n

As she is so prolific and full of concerns, her fictional work is difficult to classify: critics classify it as literature for children and young people, fantasy and science fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recently, <\/span>La tiran\u00eda de las moscas<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(Seville, 2021) deserved the C\u00e1lamo Award for the best book of the year. The novel is successfully marketed in Spain and Argentina, and will soon also be available in Italian, Russian, English and Portuguese.<\/span><\/p>\n

She listed only six of her most notable books: <\/span>Culto de acoplamiento<\/span><\/i>, Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed publishers, 2015; <\/span>Las monta\u00f1as de la extinci\u00f3n<\/span><\/i>, Matanzas publishers, 2016; <\/span>Los a\u00f1os del silencio<\/span><\/i>, Dilatando Mentes publishers, Spain, 2019; <\/span>Salom\u00e9<\/span><\/i>, La Pollera publishers, Chile, 2018; <\/span>El trono de Ecbactana<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(Second Book, <\/span>La voz transparente<\/span><\/i>), Gente Nueva publishers, \u00c1mbar Collection, 2019; and <\/span>Un globo rojo en tu ventana<\/span><\/i>, Edeb\u00e9 publishers, Mexico, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

I confess, Elaine, that the numbers don\u2019t add up. Playwright, narrator, guitar and singing teacher, actress, leader of literary workshops, author of fifty titles, lecturer…. Where did you find the time to do all that? Do you consider yourself a Cuban of these very hard years?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

The mark of these years is in my DNA, in my bones, in my insomnia and in my writing, so I suppose I could consider myself a Cuban of these times. Defining \u201cthese times\u201d is what, until now, escapes my most dystopian imagination, and perhaps that is why I insist on writing every day, as if life were precisely the fact of ending a story and opening a new one, a desire to specify and seize some kind of truth (in the era of post-truths or piecemeal truths).<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s curious: what I consider my best stories have been born in these years. I suppose it has happened because, if you live on the limit, there is no other way of writing that is not also on the limit. Literature has saved me from many things. Right now it saves me from being stranded in the middle of the long night that is breathed in my country.<\/span><\/p>\n