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Cuban International Book Fair opens doors today

The 25th Cuba 2016 International Book Fair opened today at Havana’s Cabana Castle displaying over 900 new literary works and the attendance of 70 Cuban publishing houses and 37 from around the world. Read More

Cuban journalist present book in Windhoek, Namibia

SWAPO, a lion against Apartheid, is the title of the new book by Cuban journalist Hedelberto Lopez Blanch, which will be presented in its English version in mid-August in Windhoek, capital of Namibia, in southwest Africa. Read More

Hemingway, another bridge between Cuba and the United States

The National Council of Cultural Heritage of Cuba and Finca Vigia American Foundation will join forces again to protect the legacy of Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, with the construction of a space to restore and preserve the belongings of the writer in Vigia Farm, where he lived. Read More

Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87

Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist whose “One Hundred Years of Solitude” established him as a giant of 20th-century literature, died on Thursday at his home in Mexico City. He was 87 Read More

Cuba opens Int'l Book Fair

Cuba on Thursday opened an International Book Fair with Ecuador as the guest country of honor Read More

Havana's Cuba Pavilion to Open its Doors to Intl. Book Fair

Havana's Cuba Pavilion, headquarters of the Hermanos Saiz Association (AHS), will open its doors to the Cuba 2014 International Book Fair, scheduled for February 13-23 in this capital Read More

Casa de las Americas Literary Awards Opens

Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, and Colombia are the countries with great number of works in contest in the 55th edition of the Casa de las Americas Literary Award, whose working sessions start here today. Read More

Pulitzer winner Hijuelos dies in NYC at age 62; wrote of Cuban immigrant experience

Oscar Hijuelos, a Cuban-American novelist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1989 novel “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love” and whose work often captured the loss and triumphs of the Cuban immigrant experience, has died. Read More

Cuba to mark Fidel Castro's birthday with book release

Cuba celebrates the 87th birthday of its "historical" revolution leader Fidel Castro with the release of a book dedicated to him, local media said Thursday. Read More

Illustrated Edition of La Niña de Guatemala Launched

The Amanuense publishing house launched the illustrated edition of the poem "La Niña de Guatemala" (The Guatemalan Girl) one of the most well-known poems of Jose Marti (1853-1895), the Cuban national hero. Read More

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