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MIRTA YÁÑEZ: DISCURSO PARA LA RECEPCIÓN DEL PREMIO NACIONAL DE LITERATURA 2019

La autora, en Cojímar

Siempre que me preguntan sobre el oficio del escritor y la escritora, acudo a una definición atribuida a los franceses hermanos Goncourt: “facilidad innata y dificultad adquirida”. A lo que yo añado dos premisas: el dominio de la lengua y la conciencia de pertenecer a una cultura determinada.

Yo también he tenido otras divisas como persona y como escritora, y una…

Presentación de mi novela policiaca “El milagro de San Lázaro” en FIU el 8 de Septiembre

If you’re in Florida, go listen to Uva! If not, just buy the book.

Memoria del silencio, memorias del exilio desde las dos orillas.

This heartwarming story is also available in bilingual edition through Cubanabooks–print or e-book through Amazon, the Cubanabook website, and bookstores.

Las mujeres han escrito 9 de los 10 libros más vendidos de todos los tiempos

Ahora, si las cubanas llegaran a formar parte de la lista…

Help us bring Cuban women’s voices to the United States!!

(back row, left to right) Uva de Aragón, María Elena Llana, Nancy Alonso, Aida Bahr (front row) Nancy Morejón, Georgina Herrera, Sara E. Cooper, Mirta Yáñez

Cubanabooks: Helping Women, Building Bridges

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When Barack Obama and Raul Castro made simultaneous pledges this January, to renew political ties between the United States and…

Book Review: Ophelias by Aida Bahr

Minerva Rising‘s Linsdey Grudnicki has this to say about Aida Bahr’s Ophelias/Ofelias:

Madness comes in many forms.

Ophelias, Aida Bahr’s latest story collection, tactfully touches upon many of them, exploring the mysterious forces that can bring even the strongest human spirit to its knees. Like the book’s muse, the women at the center of Bahr’s tales reach their breaking point and fall into a…

Cubanabooks founder and editor in Chief

Cubanabooks founder and editor in Chief featured in online magazine On Cuba

Vietnamese delegation highlights develop

Vietnamese delegation highlights development of #Cuban #women http://ow.ly/PivWO http://ow.ly/i/bHg8s

Scary Sounds at Night…

Raising the hairs on the back of your neck from Cuba

María Elena Llana, at the Casa de las Américas, Feb 2015

Truthfully I can’t read Maria Elena Llana’s stories before bed. The offerings in An Address in Havana/ Domicilio habanero (bilingual edition) are just a bit too spooky. Now don’t get me wrong, they aren’t grotesque or gruesome, not gory or Silence of the Lambshorror. But they do very much…

Screams of Pain and Pride

Screams of Pain and Pride: The World According to GH

Georgina Herrera, on her balcony in Alamar

Georgina Herrera, or GH, as she is frequently called by her fans, is not someone that you can keep quiet. And that’s a good thing, if you ask me–and you kind of did, if you are reading my blog entry.

Born into poverty, “isolated and misunderstood” by her family (as Paula Sanmartín says), given no…

What does our new relationship with Cuba mean for Cuban Americans?

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Achy Obejas, author of first rate fiction and non-fiction, will join Aida Bahr May 18 at Moe’s Books in Berkeley, CA.

Originally posted on Achy Obejas:

Achy Obejas moved to the U.S. over 50 years ago, never expecting the two nations to reestablish ties. Nor how she, and other émigrés, might feel about it. Read the article in Dame Magazine.

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Feminist Cuban author visits Bay Area

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Thanks to Lisa Paravisini for including this great article by Bay Area Reporter’s Heather Cassell!

Originally posted on Repeating Islands:

Cuban feminist author Aida Bahr will be reading from her collection of prize-winning short stories, Ophelias/Ofelias , to Bay Area audiences at two special events.

Bahr and her translator, Dick Cluster, will host readings and discussions in…

UNIVERSITY of MISSOURI

AFRO-CUBAN ARTISTS: A RENAISSANCE Columbia, Missouri April 27-30, 2016

CALL FOR PROPOSALS Submission Deadline—December 15, 2015

AFRO-CUBAN ARTISTS: A RENAISSANCE is an international interdisciplinary conference hosted by the MU Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, which will be of interest to scholars, and students, as well as creative artists working in the…

Feria del Libro en La Habana

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The International Book Fair in Havana #FILH was a wild success for #Cubanabooks.

Originally posted on Habanera soy:

Publicado en El Nuevo Herald 2-24-2015

La capital cubana ha estado de fiesta. Los amantes de la cultura disfrutaron de las múltiples actividades de la Feria del Libro, que se extendieron del 12 al 22 de febrero, en la Fortaleza San Carlos de la Cabaña y otras sedes. Se…

Contretemps in Cuba, or The Saga of the Books--Part I

Wednesday, February 11, 2015.When a plane touches down at José Martí National Airport (or to anywhere else from the island), the inevitable but always spontaneous applause and glad shouts make me wonder about their motivation. Are travelers truly that delighted that they have returned home–meaning the place where they actually live, or in many cases the place from whence they emigrated years ago?…