Leonardo Padura

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

Leonardo Padura on today's Cuba upon receiving the Liber Award: "It has become a daily hell."

Leonardo Padura in El País: "In a trench of time," Cubans "ask themselves 'how long?'"

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

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

In Cuba, "band-aids have been applied where deep surgeries should have been performed," says Leonardo Padura

Leonardo Padura assures that no one escapes the crisis in Cuba: "Reality enters your home."

"Until they kick me out": Padura reaffirms his decision to continue living in Cuba

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

María Elvira Salazar: "The regime can suppress, but it cannot stop what is coming."

"Impoverished, weary, hopeless," Cubans need change in Cuba, says Padura in El País

Jacqueline Arenal recounts how she met her husband Alfredo and their reunion 25 years later: “The second part was better.”

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

Leonardo Padura receives an honorary doctorate from the University of Guadalajara

Leonardo Padura reflects on Cuban reality: "Misery breeds misery."

Padura confesses how much he spent to survive the blackouts in Havana: "Not everyone can afford this."

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

Leonardo Padura: "There are few reasons to think of Havana with optimism."

Leonardo Padura on Havana: "Marginalization, violence, poverty, and inequality have increased."

Jorge Perugorría celebrates his 2024 National Film Award with Cuban artists

Leonardo Padura on protests in Cuba: "People deserve to live better after so many sacrifices."

Leonardo Padura recalls the spirit of Christmas in Cuba

A tribute will be held for the Cuban writer Leonardo Padura at Casa de América in Madrid

Leonardo Padura: “In Cuba, we have hit rock bottom.”

Leonardo Padura: "My books are in every Spanish-speaking country, except in Cuba."

Vargas Llosa and Padura headliners at the Escribidores Festival in Málaga

Leonardo Padura wins the 2023 Pepe Carvalho Award for noir fiction

Leonardo Padura: "It is unfair to label women as immoral for engaging in prostitution."

Leonardo Padura: "We have been tired of hearing promises for a long time."

Leonardo Padura's latest novel among the best-selling books of 2022

Leonardo Padura's novel among the best books of 2022

Cuban artists reunite during the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema

Leonardo Padura: "There is a process of making me invisible in Cuba."

Padura: "I am a writer who is not talked about in the Cuban media."

Leonardo Padura: “There has been a lack of political will to apologize to artists and intellectuals.”

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

Leonardo Padura will present his novel "Decent People" in Madrid

Leonardo Padura says that life in Cuba is at a critical point

Leonardo Padura: If the people in a country lose hope, there is a very serious crisis

Leonardo Padura says that exile is one of the great dramas of Cubans

Leonardo Padura nominated for the Médicis Prize in France

Leonardo Padura anticipates a new migratory exodus in Cuba

Padura: "It is very serious when people shout for freedom."

Padura: "Fidel moved with a more romantic sense of reality, while Raúl brought a more practical sense."

Cuban Leonardo Padura among the finalists for the Mario Vargas Llosa Novel Prize worth $100,000

Albertico Pujol on the life of Cubans: Work hard, demonstrate what you have learned, and be grateful to the revolution

Cuban Náyare Menoyo wins the King of Spain Award in Television with a documentary about Leonardo Padura

Leonardo Padura has been elected as a member of the Mexican Academy of Language

Jacqueline Arenal alongside Leonardo Padura in Havana at the presentation of his new book "Like Dust in the Wind."

Guadalajara Fair honors Leonardo Padura

Leonardo Padura: "I would love to win the Nobel Prize, of course!"

Padura: "In Cuba, the most educated are the ones who emigrate the most."

Jorge Perugorría announces the recording of the second season of "Cuatro estaciones en La Habana."

Leonardo Padura: Cubans consider Hialeah "as a territory conquered in the Empire."

Cuban writer Leonardo Padura would be among the nominees for the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature

Leonardo Padura does not believe that Cuba will experience anything similar to the Special Period again

The new novel by Leonardo Padura deals with the challenging 1990s

Leonardo Padura once again defends the Cuban healthcare system: "We must point out the bad and also recognize the good."

"The problem of Cuba has lasted 60 years and is called food," says the writer Leonardo Padura

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