Cuban writers

"The main function of a government... is to ensure the well-being and security of its citizens," opines a Cuban writer

Dying to Live "in the Best of All Possible Worlds": The Heart-Wrenching 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!"

Zoé Valdés announces the presentation of her book "Dignas cubanas" in Miami

Academic recalls crimes of the UMAP in the context of the Cuban Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia

Enrique del Risco: May Cuba finally have "a moment of rest"

“Until they throw me out”: Padura reaffirms his decision to continue living in Cuba

Eduardo del Llano: The embargo "is responsible for seventy percent" of the country's difficulties

Academic Alejandro González Acosta: "Change in Cuba must be radical, everything needs to be overturned."

Leonardo Padura: "Cuba must change, not because Trump says so, but because we Cubans need change."

Writer Daína Chaviano reveals her secret dream if Cuba changes: "To hunt ghosts!"

Writer Daína Chaviano reveals that there are Cuban military personnel opposed to the regime

Cuban writer in Argentina recalls the lack of freedoms in Cuba

Zoé Valdés demands the prohibition of the Communist Party in Cuba

"It is a negotiation between Trump and Putin; the Cuban people will receive nothing": Zoé Valdés on the Russian tanker to Cuba

Zoé Valdés: "I cannot forgive: Drones, drones, drones!"

From harassment to freedom: Jorge Fernández Era and his wife manage to leave Cuba

"The mental police that the regime implants within you, according to a Cuban writer."

The disappearance of Cuban writer Jorge Fernández Era is reported

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

They celebrate the birthday of Cuban poetess Isabel Mendoza, who survives in poverty

The UNEAC gives away books from its library, sparking outrage among Cuban writers

Cuban literature in mourning after the death of poet Lina de Feria

"I hope that what he did was not for nothing": Relative of the Cuban who died in the boat shot down by the Coast Guard

Writer Dania Ferro shares the dream of many Cuban émigrés: to return and rebuild the towns of the island

Pavel Alling: He died during the boat incursion and advocated that Cuba is a collective heartbeat

Traveling adrift without a country: the dilemma faced by exiled Cuban writers, from Wendy Guerra's perspective

Cuban actress, playwright, and writer Cristina Rebull has passed away

Zoé Valdés accuses Leonardo Padura of being a "police officer of the Cuban regime."

"In Cuba, we learned to survive; in Miami, I learned to build": The testimony that moves Cubans in exile

UNEAC celebrates poet Delfín Prats: From ostracism and censorship to "an essential figure of our literature"

Leonardo Padura receives an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Guadalajara

Holguin poet dies while living on the streets

She names the Cuban influencers who did not support her despite receiving the novel: "The least they could have done was post a story."

Each hurricane strips away "a Cuba in rags" and reveals the country's structural poverty, claims the writer

Cuban writer Julio Travieso has passed away

Independent writer and journalist Juan González Febles has died in Havana

Santiago writer on the situation in Cuba: "This ship is adrift heading for the shipwreck of its people."

"It is a pity that we could not make progress in our homeland": Exiled writer rescues the story of 250 Cuban singers

Gina Montaner breaks the silence on the euthanasia of her father, the Cuban writer Carlos Alberto Montaner

José María Vitier responds to Jorge Fernández Era's complaint: "I find no argument that justifies such treatment."

Ulises Toirac speaks out following a new violent arrest of writer Jorge Fernández Era

Wife of the writer Jorge Fernández Era resigns from Uneac

The regime requests up to 9 years in prison for peaceful protesters in Encrucijada

Writer Félix Sánchez dies in Ciego de Ávila

Jorge Fernández Era reports being beaten after his arrest by State Security in Havana

Young man from Camagüey fulfills his dream of publishing his first book just four years after arriving in the United States

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

Cuban writer Enrique del Risco denounces Meliá and Blue Diamond for financing repression in Cuba

Leonardo Padura denounces the fear of Cubans in the U.S. following the revocation of humanitarian parole

State Security harassment against Cuban writer reported at Mérida Book Fair

Mother of writer detained in Villa Clara for protesting during blackout delivers heart-wrenching message

Cuban writer Luis Cabrera Delgado passes away, renowned author of children's and young adult literature

A renowned Cuban professor and writer, aged 81, dies after being hit by a vehicle in Brazil

Young Cuban writer and activist seeks help to receive medical care

Cuban essayist and literary critic Cira Romero Rodríguez has passed away in Havana at the age of 79

Yamila Suárez Núñez, prominent Cuban writer for radio and television, has passed away

Cuban activist leaves Cuba and ventures into the jungle of Nicaragua

Thieves rob the home of Cuban writer Rafael Almanza in Camagüey

Cuban writer and critic Francisco López Sacha has passed away