Art and Literature

How Cubans Learned Not to Be Erased

George W. Bush paints Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and includes the portrait in his book about political prisoners and dissidents

Ulises Toirac: "I don't want to get used to living in precarious conditions."

"Ask how all the thirst of an Island is quenched": poet and journalist from Matanzas

Cuban playwright receives Mention in the 2026 Hispano-American Award for Dramaturgy for New Childhoods

Rubens Riol: a Cuban film critic in the classrooms of Princeton

Cuban writer and translator to Díaz-Canel: "Stop speaking for us"

Writer Daína Chaviano reveals her secret dream if Cuba changes: "To hunt ghosts!"

Cuban writer Julio Travieso has died

From the guajirito of Los Palos to the critic in New York: the story of Piter Ortega Núñez

Miami Book Fair celebrates its 40th anniversary

Cuban artist revives José Martí using artificial intelligence: "Tyrant Fidel, dark was your arrival"

Two Cuban writers awarded at the 2022 Florida Book Awards

The Padilla Case: An Absurd Discussion

Vargas Llosa and Padura headliners at the Writers Festival in Málaga

Vargas Llosa, the first member of the French Academy with a body of work exclusively in Spanish

Cuban-American writer Sergio Andricaín wins children's poetry award

Leonardo Padura's novel among the best books of 2022

Colombia, guest country at the Havana International Book Fair 2023

Cuban writer Luis Manuel García wins short story award in Spain

CINTAS Foundation awards three Cuban creators with 2022 scholarships

Spanish novelist Javier Marías, a prominent figure in contemporary literature, has passed away

Prominent Cuban writer Fina García Marruz dies in Havana

A new collection of stories addresses the social conflicts of contemporary Cuba

The Buenos Aires Book Fair kicks off with Havana as the Guest City of Honor and a Patria y Vida booth

The Fondo de Cultura Económica of Mexico will open a branch in Cuba

Cuban writer Senel Paz receives the Ernest Hemingway Award from the United States

Yamil Cuéllar, the Cuban who reads for many

Violeta: the new novel by Isabel Allende tells the story of a woman between two pandemics

Julio Travieso, National Literature Prize 2021 in Cuba

Misconceptions: A Bilingual Anthology of Cuban Poets from the Early 21st Century

Cuban poet Georgina Herrera passes away in Havana

Leonardo Padura: If people in a country lose hope, there is a very serious crisis

Cuban writer Wendy Guerra joins the CNN en Español network

Cuban journalist Ciro Bianchi Ross appointed to the jury of the upcoming Cervantes Prize for Literature

Cuban writer Arístides Vega: "I have always defended my truth and have absolute intolerance for double talk."

Floréal Melgar: The Cuban people have suffered enough to deserve to live in freedom

Cuban writer Carlos Manuel Álvarez will present his new novel titled Falsa guerra

Interview with Cuban writer Hilda María Fernández: Cuba survives thanks to those of us who are abroad

Juan Abreu: Strokes and Words

The American poet Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature

Carlos Espinosa, a Stakhanovite monk of Cuban culture

Gonzalo Roig, composer of the zarzuela “Cecilia Valdés,” was born 130 years ago

Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón has died at the age of 55

15 essential Cuban novels to make the most of isolation time

Call for the Reinaldo Arenas Narrative Prize 2020

The Cuban writer who revealed the burial record of General Arnaldo Ochoa has passed away in Germany

La Moderna Poesía, the most famous bookstore in Cuba, no longer exists

Debates on Independent Art in Havana

They manage to republish La Edad de Oro as Martí conceived it in 1889

Cuban designer, illustrator, and graphic artist Alfredo Montoto has passed away

Paying a premium, the resource of the avid reader to buy a book… if they find it at the fair

The Cuban writer Enrique del Risco receives the Unicaja Prize for his novel 'Turcos en la niebla'

"French novel 'Secuestran' banned in Cuba due to 'immorality of the cover' and 'issues with the content'"

What's new in the world of literature for the coming year

Uruguayan writer Ida Vitale wins the 2018 Cervantes Prize

The Cuban writer Enrique del Risco wins an award in Spain worth 30,000 euros

Frank Padrón presents his book 'Cinema and Diversity' at the 'Llamale H' Festival in Montevideo

Today, an unpublished book by Alejo Carpentier is being presented in Havana

Cuban writer Leonardo Padura wins historical novel award in Spain