Cuban writers

Dania Ferro doesn't hold back! She reveals the types of men she dislikes the most: "I can't stand them!"

Infallible formula to expedite a procedure in Cuba: The tale of "Juan"

Book on plants and rituals of Afro-Cuban culture presented at the Congress in Puebla, Mexico

"Requiem for the rotation of the circuits," jokes a writer from Holguín after 25 hours without electricity

Florida International University honors Cuban Daniel Pedreira for his book on disappearances under Castro's regime

"That even washing one's face requires competing for resources" is a lament of a Holguin writer in Cuba

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

Babalawo wonders why Cuba has not changed after 67 years of "failed policies."

Cuban writer Manuel Pereira has died in Mexico

José Gabriel Barrenechea remains incarcerated with violent prisoners and cut off from communication

Leonardo Padura on present-day Cuba upon receiving the Liber Award: "It has become a daily hell."

Cuban intellectual warns about drug expansion: "How much longer do we have to wait?"

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

Words obsolete 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 never arrives"

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 cleaning days

Dumpsters and Indifference in Cuba: "The Great Stench," laments a writer from Holguín

Cuban writer after the new power outage: "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: Loosening the Tongue" was shown to a full house in Miami

"The dignity has gone to graze in a barren field": heart-wrenching 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 'caballito', without transformer, without electricity, and without hopes."

They present "Vindictas"... "the most comprehensive anthology of Cuban short story writers since the 19th century."

In a subdued Cuba, a book about Fidel titled "The Lantern That Accompanies Us" is presented

Writer from Camagüey: "More than forty-eight hours without electricity and I can't even lodge a complaint."

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

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

Leonardo Padura wins the 2026 Liber Prize for the most prominent Hispanic American author

"That of staying 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 nurtured thought before the historical rupture

A heartbreaking 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 welfare 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 quench thirst," mocks the playwright from Pinar del Río

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

Cuban visual artist and writer erupts against the "new socialism where capitalism reigns."

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

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

A Cuban writer asserts that the true blackout in Cuba is having lost the ability to feel indignant

"Where did we leave off that everything is turned upside down?" questions the Cuban poet and researcher

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

Writer Álex Padrón has passed away at the age of 52, "an essential figure in Cuban noir literature."

Involuntary Symbolism of the Cuban Book Institute: Poetry Collection "Migraciones" Presented on July 11

Víctor Manuel Domínguez, writer, union activist, and independent Cuban 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," mocks a writer from the Island

Leonardo Padura: With the reforms, the Cuban state will maintain "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 disguise" 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-interested 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 really straighten out the national economy," sarcastically remarks a 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"