Leonardo Padura

Leonardo Padura in El País: "In a pit of time" Cubans "ask themselves 'until when?'"

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

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

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

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

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

"Impoverished, weary, and 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 grown."

Jorge Perugorría celebrates his 2024 National Film Award alongside Cuban artists

Leonardo Padura on protests in Cuba: "The 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 all Spanish-speaking countries, except in Cuba."

Vargas Llosa and Padura headliners at the Escribidores Festival in Málaga

Leonardo Padura wins the 2023 Pepe Carvalho Award for crime fiction

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

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

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 invisibilization of my figure in Cuba."

Padura: "I am a writer who is not spoken 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 say what I want to say about Cuba without holding back"

Leonardo Padura will present his novel "Personas decentes" 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 perspective."

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

Albertico Pujol on the life of Cubans: Work hard, showcase 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 elected as a member of the Mexican Academy of Language

Jacqueline Arenal with 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 definitely 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 conquered territory in the Empire"

Cuban writer Leonardo Padura is 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 addresses the challenging years of the 1990s

Leonardo Padura reiterates his defense of the Cuban healthcare system: “We must highlight the bad while also recognizing the good.”

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

15 essential Cuban novels to make the most of your time in isolation

Padura states that there is no political will in Cuba to publish his books

Documentary denounces official silence about Leonardo Padura on the island