In his writing, Fernández Larrea seeks to banish any local color of his sceneries and language, in a displacement that ultimately imitates the most common literary translation. Author of a novel, short stories and essays, he is also an editor at the University of Havana publishing house.
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Polina Martínez Shviétsova’s writing has that fragmentary strength that emanates both from delirium and ingenuity. A fiction writer, poet and freelance journalist, she is the author of two books of poetry, Gotas de Fuego and Tao del Azar, and a short story collection, Hechos con Metallica.
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Author of the short story collection Zona de Exorcismo, Espineta Osuna takes refuge in an upper floor of one of the few tall buildings of Camagüey, Cuba. From there, with explosive silence, like a gladiator illuminated by her own letters, she has been writing a novel for years.
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Writer, poet, and editor, Jorge Alberto Aguiar Díaz is the author of Adiós a las Almas, a collection of short stories. JAAD is a pioneer of dirty realism in Cuba, with stories of great anthropological impact. The beauty of his characters lies in their stoic desolation.
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Author of two collections of short stories, Osdany Morales is one of the young Cuban writers that, through his many provocative intertextual connections, demonstrates a natural lucidity and playfulness. His work has been included in several short-story anthologies of recent Cuban literature.
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Fiction writer and photographer Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo as edited the cultural magazine Extramuros. This story is being published for the first time in English.
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Gleyvis Coro Montanet is a dentist, which is obvious from her incisive writings and her influences as a reader. This story is published in English for the first time.
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