Writers

Cuban writer seeks to demystify the figure of Fidel Castro as an intellectual, created 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 of the 19-year-old Cuban writer, Maykol Cobas, came to be

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."

Félix Sánchez, the writer, dies in Ciego de Ávila

Cuban writer awarded for work documenting 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 on the death 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: "A curious way to combat communism"

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

The United States approves economic funding 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 a hundred comedians, artists, and writers condemn 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

Over 100 intellectuals call for democracy and respect for human rights in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua

Honorary presidency of a poetic event withdrawn from Nancy Morejón in France

Cuban writer Antón Arrufat passes away in Havana

Cuban writer prosecuted 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 passed away, a person non grata to Fidel Castro

Vargas Llosa and Padura headlining the Escribidores Festival in Málaga

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

Presentation of "Chamaquili and the Pandemic" 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 Prize for noir literature

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 International Book Fair of Havana 2023

2022 Anagrama Prize for Chronicle awarded to writer Carlos Manuel Álvarez

Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez believes 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 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 passes away, 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 has been discharged after several days in the hospital with COVID-19

The Economic Culture Fund of Mexico 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 2022 Casa de las Américas Literary Award Announced

Mexican intelligence monitored Gabriel García Márquez for nearly 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: the new novel by Isabel Allende tells the story of a woman between two pandemics