Cartoonist steals show at Cuba Book Fair

One of the greats of Latin American humor, cartoonist Joaquin Salvador Lavado "Quino," creator of the Mafalda comic strip, was a big hit Monday presenting a volume of his work at the 16th International Book Fair underway in Havana. The cartoonist, part of the Argentine cultural delegation attending the fair, combines humor and social commentary in his popular work. He singed dozens of his books and spoke vividly with his audience. Read More

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Argentina donates Cuba 250,000 books

Argentine government donated Cuba 250,000 books, within a collection of five anthologies, as a token of the close ties of friendship between both countries. Aique Group Editor director Teresita Valdettaro, which is in charge of donating the copies, told media representatives accredited to be at 16th International Book Fair that anthologies have 50,000 volumes each. Read More

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Homosexuality in cuban literature: An Approach to a Taboo

Despite Sodom's destruction by fire, homosexuality has been condemned and ignored by humanity throughout centuries but it is like any other subject in the literary and artistic life of human beings. Read More

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Argentine rock music featured at Cuban Book Fair

The Anti-Imperialist Bandstand in Havana will host a concert celebrating 40 years of Argentine rock music within the program of the 16th Cuban International Book Fair 2007 that will take place February 8 to 18 in the Cuban capital. Argentina is this years special guest country to the popular annual event that starts in Havana and then tours throughout the island. Read More

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Boloña Publishing House will be presenting new titles at Havana's International Book Fair

Boloña Publishing House, from the Historian Office of the City, will be presenting its most recent books at the 16th Havana's International Book Fair, that will take place from February 8th-18th at San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress. The presentations will be held at the Boloñas stand , at 3 in the afternoon. Read More

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Argentina honors Cuban Book Fair

Argentina will honor the 16th International Book Fair of Havana with a strong and diverse presence from February 8-18. Guillermo Moranchel, national director of Accion Federal e Industrias Culturales, of Argentina, said the goal is to stress culture as a mobilizing force. Read More

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The Cuban Book Fair is coming next week

More than 500 publishers from 82 countries will participate at the 16th International Book Fair in Cuba (FIL), which will cover 40 cities, and opens at the San Carlos de la Cabana Fort in Havana on February 8. In the announcement news conference, FIL President Iroel Sanchez explained this fair will have 135 exhibitors, 82 of them foreigners, a never before registered figure, attesting perhaps that word has spread of Cubans love for books. Read More

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Cuban writer wins Latin American Prize

Cuban writer Alberto Abreu received the Casa de Las Americas 2007 Prize in the category of artistic-literary essay on Thursday. Abreu, a narrator and art critic, won the award unanimously for his essay Los juegos de la escritura o la (re) escritura de la Historia (The games of writing or re-writing history). Read More

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Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Cuba win Casa 2007 Prizes

Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Cuba led the vanguard of good Latin American literature by winning the Casa 2007 Prizes, convened from January 15 to its closure yesterday in the Che Guevara Hall of this Cuban institution. Read More

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Cultural Brigade will pay tribute to José Martí

Over 35 artists and intellectuals that are part of the Cultural Brigade in Campaign of the Santiago de Cuba province will pay tribute to the Cuban National Hero Jose Marti, at his 154 birth date. The tribute to the Hero starts this Tuesday with the registration of the group at the Santa Ifigenia cemetery and with the deposit of flowers in front of the tomb, where lies the man who was born the 28th of January 1853 in Paula street, in Havana. Read More

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