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

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Raúl talks with the population in Fidels electoral district

General of the Army Raúl Castro Ruz, first vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers, took part yesterday in one of the district meetings organized to present candidates for parliamentary deputies and delegates to the Provincial Assemblies of Peoples Power. Read More

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Raul Castro Meets with Santiago Voters

The vice president highlighted the modest origin and high cultural level of those proposed by that district, and recalled that he is from that eastern region. Read More

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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

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Landings exhibition catalogue to be presented

The Landings catalogue was presented at the Casa de las Américas. This is an artistic project conceived and designed by the artist and promoter from Cataluña, who lives in Belize, Joan Duran. Read More

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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

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A call for the international event La guantanamera en el corazón del Caribe

In an encounter with the press, which was held in the Mariana Grajales Coello Revolution Square. Read More

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Havana Historian

Queen Sofia, of Spain, presented Havana historian Eusebio Leal Spengler with the "Reina Sofia International Award" in the category of Cultural Heritage Preservation and Restoration. Read More

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Cuba and Venezuela Sign Fourteen Economic Agreements

Cuba and Venezuela continue to strengthen relations with the signing Saturday by President Hugo Chavez and Cuban First Vice President Raul Castro of fourteen economic agreements within the framework of the 4th Petrocaribe Summit. Read More

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Guanajay, a film by Humberto Solás, will start shooting in 2008

Humberto Solás, director of film Lucía, shot in 1968, and ranked among the top ten Cuban and Latin American movies of all times, is one of the most outstanding Cuban movie dirctors. Read More

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