Cuban writers

"That even washing one's face requires competing for resources" in Cuba, laments a writer from Holguín

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

Babalawo wonders why Cuba hasn't changed after 67 years of "failed policies."

The Cuban writer Manuel Pereira has died in Mexico

José Gabriel Barrenechea remains confined alongside violent prisoners and is incommunicado

Leonardo Padura on today’s Cuba upon receiving the Liber Award: "It has become an everyday hell."

Cuban intellectual warns about drug expansion: "How long must we wait?"

Writer Ángel Santiesteban-Prats, new leader of the 33rd Degree of Freemasonry in Cuba

Words fallen into disuse in the face of rampant inflation: Cuban writer recalls the peseta and the "peso macho"

Lyrical lament of a poet: between the "Judas of the government" and "a future that does not arrive"

Poet Ariel Maceo Téllez: "What the Cuban regime is doing is unforgivable."

Grass invades the graves of writers in the Colón Cemetery, and the ICL organizes cleanup days

Garbage and indifference in Cuba: "The Great Stench," laments Holguin writer

Cuban writer after new blackout: "We need to stop living in the dark."

Cuban writer: "Igniting the coal," "a new discipline of survival" on the island

The documentary "Lezama Lima: Letting the Tongue Loose" was shown to a full house in Miami

"The dignity has gone to graze in a barren field": heartbreaking verses from a Cuban poet

More than a week without water, less than four hours of electricity, and almost cut off from communication: "Plebiscite now," erupts writer

Cuban poet: "Here we are, without 'little horse', without transformer, without power, and without hopes."

They present "Vindictas"... "the most comprehensive anthology of Cuban storytellers since the 19th century."

In a dimmed Cuba, a book about Fidel titled "The Lamp That Accompanies Us" is being presented

Camagüey Writer: "More than forty-eight hours without electricity, and I can't even complain."

"Beautiful tourist views": Cuban writer addresses overflow of sewage water in the streets of Havana

The documentary "Lezama Lima: Letting the Tongue Loose," by Ernesto Fundora, will be screened at the Coral Gables Museum

Leonardo Padura wins the 2026 Liber Award for the most outstanding Ibero-American author

"Keeping silent is not worthy of a medal": a heartbreaking Cuban poem for those who have departed

Education and Culture in the Republic (1902-1958): A nation that built schools, trained teachers, and fostered thought before the historical rupture

A heart-wrenching poem to the "Protective Society of Cubans" that "is based in Florida."

Cuban writer: What is spent at the Book Fair is "stolen from the well-being of the people."

Cuban writer after 7 days without electricity: The revolution is "charging everything that needs to be charged."

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

"Acueducto is on the horizon... What is Acueducto for? To be thirsty," jokes the playwright from Pinar del Río

Amid blackouts and protests: The regime promotes its Book Fair in El Vedado

Cuban visual artist and writer erupts against the "new socialism where capitalism is in charge."

In Cuba, "even the most basic needs seem like luxury items," laments a writer from Holguín

"I am a... dialectical synthesis between metaphor and threat": delightful apocryphal interview with Díaz-Canel

Cuban writer asserts that the true blackout in Cuba is having lost the ability to be outraged

"Where did we leave off that everything is spinning backward?" questions the Cuban poet and researcher

An unpublished book about Humberto Solás was presented at the Gibara Poor Film Festival

Álex Padrón, "an essential figure of Cuban noir fiction," passes away at the age of 52

Unintentional Symbolism of the Cuban Institute of Books: Poetry Collection "Migraciones" Presented on July 11th

Víctor Manuel Domínguez, Cuban writer, labor activist, and independent journalist, has passed away

Cuban poet: "I was an exemplary pioneer, and they turned me into a wound without a country... distant... crazy."

In other countries, "expressions of popular discontent"; in Cuba, "Cuban cubaneo," jokes a writer from the Island

Leonardo Padura: With the reforms, the Cuban state will retain "the most important and efficient of its industries, that of control."

Uruguayan publisher releases the book "Dúo Caricare: The Hammer and the Tack of Cuban Humor"

From the "New Man" to the "Dead Man" in a dark country: the chilling sonnet of a Cuban poet

Cuban political scientist Armando Chaguaceda criticizes those who allow themselves to be used by the regime "to beautify" a fraudulent change

"If the system is in a hole, what do they expect? War?" questions the Cuban poet to the regime

Julio César Guanche focuses on "the tragedy of the crisis, its self-serving exploitation, and the inability of the Cuban people to intervene."

Rubens Riol: a Cuban film critic in the classrooms of Princeton

Writer Ariel Hidalgo recounts how he was sent to Mazorra for demanding elections in the factories

"Now we are really straightening out the national economy," quips Cuban writer and linguist

Cuban intellectual: "No measure will be effective... if dignity and rights are not restored beforehand" in Cuba

Cuban academic Hilda Landrove: The regime's promises and "the soundtrack of endless destruction"

Cuban writer and translator to Díaz-Canel: "Don't speak on our behalf anymore."

Political scientist Armando Chaguaceda: Let us denounce that "critical" academy that sugarcoats the Cuban regime

Ulises Toirac announces the "second round" of "Locos de Barrio," with a prologue by Amir Valle

The Cuban resets when he leaves the dictatorship

Forced takeover of Cuban writer's house reported: the case illustrates a "time bomb" created by the regime