Writers

Traveling Aimlessly Without a Country: The Dilemma Facing Exiled Cuban Writers, from Wendy Guerra's Perspective

Zoé Valdés accuses Leonardo Padura of being a "police officer of the Cuban regime."

Writer Félix Sánchez dies in Ciego de Ávila

Cuban writer awarded for work that documents evangelical resistance against the regime in Cuba

Alexis Valdés, proud to narrate "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway: "A gift for me as an actor."

Alexis Valdés expresses heartfelt words for the passing of Vargas Llosa: "A luxury of a citizen in any city where he lived."

Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize in Literature and critic of Cuban socialism, has passed away

Stephen King returns to X with an attack on Trump and Elon Musk

The Cervantes Prize awarded in 1993 to Dulce María Loynaz has been delivered to the museum in Pinar del Río

Cuban writer on the lack of books in Florida library: "Curious way to combat communism"

Hooded youths assault poet in Santa Clara: "All my new work disappeared with a beating"

The United States approves economic fund to restore Hemingway's house in Cuba

Ernest Hemingway's doubles visit Cuba

Mawell realizes a dream: To have the "Harry Potter" book collection

Czech writer and dissident Milan Kundera has died

More than a hundred comedians, artists, and writers condemn the harassment against Jorge Fernández Era in Cuba

Cuban writer and journalist Carlos Alberto Montaner passes away in Madrid

State Security detains Jorge Fernández Era for being in a park in Havana with a blank sign

More than 100 intellectuals demand democracy and respect for human rights in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua

Nancy Morejón is stripped of the honorary presidency of a poetic event in France

Cuban writer Antón Arrufat has passed away in Havana

Cuban writer prosecuted after confronting his son's attacker

Two Cuban writers awarded in the Florida Book Awards 2022

Camila Cabello, proud of her Cuban grandmother for publishing her first novel at the age of 75

Jorge Edwards has died, a person non grata for Fidel Castro

Vargas Llosa and Padura headliners at the Escribidores Festival in Malaga

Writers Sergio Ramírez and Gioconda Belli applaud the Chilean president's criticism of Daniel Ortega

"Chamaquili and the Pandemic" presentation postponed due to lack of books

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

Leonardo Padura wins the 2023 Pepe Carvalho Prize for crime fiction

Vargas Llosa: "Socialism is dead. No one can believe in it after Cuba."

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

Writer Abilio Estévez abandons hopes of returning to Cuba

Colombia, guest country at the 2023 Havana International Book Fair

Anagrama Prize for Chronicle 2022 awarded to writer Carlos Manuel Álvarez

Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez believes that he may never return to his homeland due to Daniel Ortega's regime

Cuban writer Luis Manuel García wins short story award in Spain

CINTAS Foundation awards scholarships to three Cuban creators for 2022

Ignacio Ramonet says that the memes against the Cuban government are the work of communication geniuses

Leonardo Padura: "There has been a lack of political will to apologize to artists and intellectuals."

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

Leonardo Padura: "I have to say what I want to say about Cuba without holding back."

The book by Inma that smells of Cuba

Cuban poet Arlen Regueiro, a prominent cultural promoter from Ciego de Ávila, has passed away

The Universe of the Gessen

Carilda Oliver Labra would have turned 100 years old this July 6th

Adrián Henríquez, the Cuban writer who is succeeding on Amazon as an author of techno-thriller novels

Mario Vargas Llosa is discharged from the hospital after several days of being hospitalized with COVID-19

Fondo de Cultura Económica de México will open a branch in Cuba

Mario Vargas Llosa hospitalized in a clinic in Madrid due to complications from COVID-19

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

Winners of the Casa de las Américas Literary Prize 2022 Announced

Mexican intelligence monitored Gabriel García Márquez for almost 20 years due to his connections with Fidel Castro

Mexican journalist Gerardo Arreola on Cuba: The most important problem is an outdated mentality

Cuban writer Elaine Vilar wins the 2021 Cálamo Prize with her novel "The Tyranny of Flies."

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

Science fiction writer envisions Cuba as the largest tax haven in the 22nd century

American writer Joan Didion has passed away, author of a book about the Cuban exile in Miami

The Cuban historian Juan Felipe Benemelis has passed away in Miami

Spanish writer Almudena Grandes has passed away