Writers

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 gathers more than 130 "Hemingways" in Key West, Florida

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

"What country is this that we have been given? It remains in the word, in the promise": a haunting sonnet by a Cuban poet

In Cuba, "there isn't even the hope that existed in Spain" before Franco's death, reflects a Cuban writer

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

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

Writer Fernández Pequeño: "Cuban culture no longer has its center on the island."

A Cuban writer seeks to demystify the figure of Fidel Castro as an intellectual, a portrayal crafted by García Márquez

Dying to live "in the best of all possible worlds": The chilling 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 was born from the young Cuban writer, 19-year-old Maykol Cobas

Traveling adrift 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 dies 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 Vargas Llosa's passing: "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 has been handed over 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 went away with a beating"

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

Doubles of Ernest Hemingway visit Cuba

Mawell fulfills a dream: to have the "Harry Potter" book collection

Czech writer and dissident Milan Kundera dies

More than one 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 arrests 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

The honorary presidency of a poetic event is withdrawn from Nancy Morejón in France

Cuban writer Antón Arrufat passes away in Havana

Cuban writer on trial after confronting his son's attacker

Two Cuban writers awarded at 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 featured at 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 postponed due to lack of books

Vargas Llosa, the first member of the French Academy with a body of 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 abandons hopes of returning to Cuba

Colombia, guest country at the 2023 Havana International Book Fair

2022 Anagrama Prize for Chronicle awarded to writer Carlos Manuel Álvarez

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

Cuban writer Luis Manuel García wins short story award in Spain

CINTAS Foundation awards three Cuban creators with scholarships 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, a prominent figure in contemporary literature, has passed away

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

The book by Inma that smells of Cuba

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

The Universe of the Gessen

Carilda Oliver Labra would have celebrated her 100th birthday on July 6

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