Anna Lidia Vega Serova (born 1968) is a Cuban writer. [1] She was born in Leningrad, USSR. A versatile writer, she has published more than a dozen books in multiple genres including novels, short story collections, poetry collections and children's books.
She is associated with the current generation of women writers in Cuba consisting of writers such as Marilyn Bobes, Karla Suárez, Mylene Fernández Pintado, Ena Lucía Portela, Laidi Fernández de Juan, etc. She lives in Havana.
Christian Sáinz Valdés Castro, known professionally as Cristian Castro or Cristian, is a Mexican pop singer. He is the son of actors Veronica Castro and Manuel "El Loco" Valdés, and nephew of actors Ramón Valdés and Germán "Tin-Tan" Valdés. Of artistic family heritage, he is also a nephew on his mother's side of José Alberto "El Güero" Castro, well-known producer of soap operas on Televisa.
María de los Ángeles Fernández Abad, known professionally as Angelines Fernández, was a Spanish-Mexican actress and comedian. She is best remembered for playing Doña Clotilde "La Bruja del 71" in the sitcom El Chavo del Ocho. She was an anti-Franco refugee who remained in Mexico from 1947 until the end of her life.
Lydia Cabrera was a Cuban independent ethnographer.
Carmen Delia Dipiní, was a Puerto Rican singer of boleros. In 2002, Carmen Delia Dipiní was inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame.
Rosa Montero Gayo is a Spanish journalist and author of contemporary fiction.
Ana Rosa Núñez was a Cuban-American poet and librarian. She authored over two dozen books of poetry, prose, and translations.
Mayra Montero is a well-known Cuban-Puerto Rican writer.
Leonardo de la Caridad Padura Fuentes is a Cuban novelist and journalist. As of 2007, he is one of Cuba's best-known writers internationally. In his native Spanish, as well as in English and some other languages, he is often referred to by the shorter form of his name, Leonardo Padura. He has written screenplays, two books of short stories, and a series of detective novels translated into 10 languages. In 2012, Padura was awarded the National Prize for Literature, Cuba's national literary award and the most important award of its kind. In 2015, he was awarded the Premio Principe de Asturias de las Letras of Spain, one of the most important literary prizes in the Spanish-speaking world and usually considered as the Iberoamerican Nobel Prize.
Daína Chaviano is a Cuban-American writer of French and Asturian descent living in the United States since 1991.
Cuban literature is the literature written in Cuba or outside the island by Cubans in Spanish language. It began to find its voice in the early 19th century. The major works published in Cuba during that time were of an abolitionist character. Notable writers of this genre include Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda and Cirilo Villaverde. Following the abolition of slavery in 1886, the focus of Cuban literature shifted. Dominant themes of independence and freedom were exemplified by José Martí, who led the modernista movement in Latin American literature. Writers such as the poet Nicolás Guillén focused on literature as social protest. Others, including Dulce María Loynaz, José Lezama Lima and Alejo Carpentier, dealt with more personal or universal issues. And a few more, such as Reinaldo Arenas and Guillermo Cabrera Infante, earned international recognition in the postrevolutionary era.
Lydia Rodríguez Fernández, better known as Lydia, is a Spanish pop singer.
Nuria Fernández Gómez better known as Nuria Fergó is a Spanish singer and actress.
Roberto G. Fernández is a Cuban American novelist and short story writer. He is noted for his grotesque satires of the Cuban American community, especially in his English-language novels, Raining Backwards and Holy Radishes! In 2001, he was named the Dorothy Lois Breen Hoffman Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University.
Jorge Luis Cáceres is an Ecuadorian writer, editor, and anthologist.
Adriana Sofía Ugarte Pardal is a Spanish actress. She is known for her leading roles on television series La Señora and El tiempo entre costuras. Ugarte landed a starring role in the 2016 Pedro Almodóvar film Julieta.
Gerardo Fernandez Fe is a Cuban novelist and essayist. His best-known works are the novels La Falacia (1999) and El último día del estornino (2011) and the books of essays Cuerpo a diario (2007) and Notas al total (2015).
Cristina Fernández Cubas is a Spanish writer and journalist. She has been described as "one of the most important writers who have begun to publish since the end of the Franco dictatorship" and has been credited with inaugurating "a renaissance in the short story genre in Spain."
Georgina Herrera is a Cuban writer of poetry, novels and short stories. She has also written drama and scripts for radio and television series, as well as for film.
The Premio Biblioteca Breve is a literary award given annually by the publisher Seix Barral to an unpublished novel in the Spanish language. Its prize is €30,000 and publication of the winning work. It is delivered in February, to a work from the preceding year.
Mirta Macedo was an Uruguayan social worker, writer and human rights activist. She is best known for her writing, some of which focus on her time as a political prisoner in Montevideo. Macedo also worked to expose the torture and sexual abuse that she and other women faced in prison.