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International Book Fair will have a preview next January

Even though the 27th edition of the International Book Fair (FIL, after its initials in Spanish) Cuba, 2008 will start at the San Carlos de la Cabaña fortress. Read More

New Webpage for University of Havana on Its 280th Anniversary

A new webpage dedicated to the 280th anniversary of the foundation of the University of Havana will be able for internet surfers. Read More

A new edition of A Hundred Years of Solitude in Cuba

A new edition of A Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez, was presented here last December 26th as a tribute to the 80 years of an indispensable writer in the history of Spanish speaking literature. Read More

Cuban Writers Receive Alejo Carpentier Award

Three famous Cuban writers won the Alejo Carpentier prizes in narrative, one of the most outstanding literary rewards in the country for the contribution to the creation process. Read More

Víctor Fowler wins the Nicolás Guillén Award

Víctor Fowler Calzada won the 2008 Poetry Nicolás Guillén award for the publication of his book La obligación de expresar (The obligation to think). Read More

Cuba's National Literature Awards Club Welcomes Writer Humberto Arenal

Cuban writer Humberto Arenal (1926) has just become the 27th member of the National Literature Awards Club. A jury made up of seven writers and critics voted unanimously for the author of El sol a plomo, (l959), the first novel ever written novel about the Cuban revolution. Read More

Poetry and poets in a new web site

The presentation coincided with the 97th anniversary of the birth of the poet José Lezama Lima, one of the giants of Cuban literature and it included the presence of famous writers, among them Nancy Morejón, César López and Antón Arrufat. Read More

Casa de las Américas Award will open the 2008

As every year, January has the mark of the Cuban Casa de las Américas and its prestigious awards that will be 49 years old and will have between the 21st and the 31st of January 2008 in Havana its exchange journeys between creators. Read More

Renowned Cuban Journalist and Writer Joaquín G. Santana Passes Away

Renowned Cuban journalist and writer Joaquín G. Santana died on Friday in Havana of a heart attack at the age of 69. Read More

New Book on the First US Military Occupation in Cuba

Cuba: Las máscaras y las sombras. La primera ocupación (Cuba: Masks and shadows. The first occupation) by Rolando Rodríguez García was launched Monday in Havana. Read More

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