Writers

María Elena Llana, nominated for the 2026 Cervantes Prize: the third Cuban to aspire to the highest award in Hispanic literature

Babalawo wonders why Cuba has not changed after 67 years of "failed policies."

Writer from Camagüey: "More than forty-eight hours without power and I can't even file a complaint."

The Supreme Court once again rejected Trump's appeal in the Carroll case and upheld the payment of over $5 million

Great Cuban thinkers of the 18th and 19th centuries on an island that began to shine with its own light

President of the World Poetic Movement defends the "existence and sovereignty" of the regime against the U.S.

Unusual contest brings together more than 130 "Hemingways" in Key West, Florida

Cuban writer and translator to Díaz-Canel: "Don't speak for us anymore."

"What country is this that we have been given? It remains in words, in promises": a chilling sonnet by a Cuban poet

In Cuba, "there is not even the hope that existed in Spain" before Franco died, reflects a Cuban writer

Enrique del Risco: "The only achievement... of the so-called Cuban Revolution is the mere existence of the regime."

More praises for Fidel on his way to his centenary: A panel of poets extols the dictator

Writer Fernández Pequeño: "Cuban culture is no longer centered on the island."

Cuban writer seeks to demystify the figure of Fidel Castro as an intellectual, shaped by García Márquez

To Die for Living "in the Best of All Possible Worlds": The Haunting Verses of a Cuban Poet

The Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba shouted loudly: "Long live Fidel! Long live Raúl! Long live Díaz-Canel!"

Coffee, Grandma Felicia, and the Family: This is how the first book of the young 19-year-old Cuban writer, Maykol Cobas, was born

Traveling Aimlessly Without a Country: The Dilemma Faced by 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 passes away in Ciego de Ávila

Cuban writer awarded for work documenting evangelical resistance against the Cuban regime

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

Alexis Valdés shares heartfelt words on 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 to Dulce María Loynaz in 1993 is presented to the Museum in Pinar del Río

Cuban writer on the lack of books in a Florida library: "A curious way to fight communism."

Hooded youths assault poet in Santa Clara: "All my new work was lost in a beating"

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

Ernest Hemingway's doubles visit Cuba

Mawell fulfills 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 dies 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's honorary presidency of a poetic event in France is withdrawn

The Cuban writer Antón Arrufat has passed away in Havana

Cuban writer prosecuted after confronting his son's aggressor

Two Cuban writers awarded at the 2022 Florida Book Awards

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

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

Vargas Llosa and Padura headline the Escribidores Festival in Málaga

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

"Chamaquili and the Pandemic" presentation canceled 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 Award 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 gives up hopes of returning to Cuba

Colombia, guest country at the 2023 Havana International Book Fair

Anagrama Award for Chronicle 2022 to writer Carlos Manuel Álvarez

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

Cuban writer Luis Manuel García wins short story award in Spain

CINTAS Foundation awards three Cuban creators with 2022 fellowships

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, a significant figure in contemporary literature

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

The book by Inma that smells of Cuba