Writers

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

"What country is this that we have been given? It remains in words, in promises": 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 praises for Fidel on the way to his centenary: Panel of poets extols the dictator

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

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

To Die for Living "in the Best of All Possible Worlds": The Harrowing 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 Cuban writer, 19-year-old Maykol Cobas, was born

Traveling Aground 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 the 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 offers 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 in 1993 to Dulce María Loynaz was 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 was lost in the 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 complete collection of "Harry Potter" books

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 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

Honorary presidency of a poetic event removed from Nancy Morejón in France

Cuban writer Antón Arrufat dies in Havana

Cuban writer faces trial after confronting his son's attacker

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 headliners at the Escribidores Festival in Málaga

Writers Sergio Ramírez and Gioconda Belli applaud 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 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 gives up hopes of returning to Cuba

Colombia, guest country at the 2023 Havana International Book Fair

Anagrama Prize for Chronical 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 three Cuban creators with 2022 scholarships

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 died

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

The book by Inma that smells of Cuba

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

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