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San Salvador de Bayamo was the second town founded by Diego Velazquez in 1513, amid the fertile valley of Cauto River, very close to Sierra Maestra legendary mountains.

The 2010 19th Internacional Book Fair of Cuba will arrive at the eastern provinces of Cuba as of March 3 informed AIN news agency.

Siempre Compay (Forever Compay), a text by Lino Betancourt on the legendary Cuban musician, was presented on Saturday at the 19th edition of Havana’s International Book Fair.

Cuban playwright Eugenio Hernandez Espinosa, 2006 National Theater Prize, presented an anthology of his works that recreate some legends of the Afro Cuban culture.

Literature is my life, assured in this capital South African writer Nadine Gordimer who professes a faith put to the tests again and over again since she decided to open the doors of literature at 26.

The president of the Cuban Book Institute, Zuleika Romay, officially inaugurated the Cuba 2010 International Book Fair, which will take place at La Cabaña Fortress in this capital until February 21.

Russian Foreign Minister Serguei Lavrov begins Thursday an official visit to Cuba where he will meet with the island's peer Bruno Rodriguez to consolidate growing bilateral ties.

The 19th International Book Fair opens in its spaces of the capital with exhibition “Cuentos sabios. Cuentos populares ruso” (Wise Stories. Popular Russian Stories), which will be inaugurated at the House of Poetry, of the Havana City Historian’s Office, on February 5, at 5:00 pm, by National Edition Award laureate Esteban Llorach.

The 7th Nicolas Guillen Colloquium and Festival on Music and Poetry, to be held in this capital from March 30 to April 2, will be dedicated to the Haitian people.

US and Cuban experts are teaming up to try to save the Cuba home where Ernest Hemingway lived for more than two decades and penned his classic "The Old Man and the Sea," official media said Wednesday.

Film critic, essayist and scriptwriter Jose Alberto Lezcano is the author of El actor de cine: arte, mito y realidad (Movie actor: art, myth and reality) the first film dictionary published in Cuba, to be launched in the 19th International Book Fair of Havana.

Ernest Hemingway, great admirer of Cuba’s virtues, lasts in the memory of the many people who followed in Cuba his literary creation and his journeys around the world.

The 2010 Alejo Carpentier Literary Award was granted to Rafael de Aguila, Ernesto Pena and David Leyva by the homonymous Foundation and the Letras Cubanas Publishing House.

Only moved by a profound feeling of love could Rogelio Martínez Furé has conceived a work as great as the two volumes of  Poesía anónima africana (Anonymous African Poetry), which has just been presented in a fourth edition.

The 11th International Conference on African and African-American Culture, to take place here next April, will shine new lights on the mark left by that continent in this geographical area, announced the organizers.