Aida Bahr

She resides in Santiago de Cuba. Bachelor's degree in Philology from the University of Oriente (1981). Master's degree in Cuban and Caribbean Studies, University of Oriente (1999). Currently she is director of Editorial Oriente and of the journal SiC, as well as a member of the editorial board of the journal Del Caribe. She served as a literature specialist at the Municipal Culture Department, director of the bulletin La palma and literary researcher at the Academy of Sciences of Cuba, in addition to being a member of the editorial board of Perfil de Santiago, always in Santiago de Cuba. Member of the UNEAC. She was part of the BHS.

She wrote the screenplay for the Cuban film En el aire (Director: Pastor Vega, ICAIC, 1989). She has received the Alejo Carpentier Awards 2006 (short story) and Third Prize in the Second Meeting of Cuban Narrative 1982 (short story), as well as David Mention 1981 (short story).

She is the author of the selections and anthologies De los cuentistas de ayer (Santiago de Cuba, 1991), El secreto de un héroe (1995), Mujer adentro (poetry, co-author, 2000) and Para subir al cielo (Ediciones Santiago, 2006).

She wrote the prologue for the selection Veinte años cuentan (Ediciones Holguín, 2006), where one of her short stories is also included. She appears in Tres cuentos afortunados (1984), Cuentos de la vida y la muerte (1987), Camino de Santiago (in Russian, short story, 1988), El submarino amarillo. Cuento cubano 1966-1991 (Mexico, 1993 and Cuba, 1994), La isla contada (Spain, 1996), Estatuas de sal (short story, 1996), Habaneras (1996), Diana (1998), Cubana (United States, 1999), Cuentistas cubanas contemporáneas (Argentina, 2000), Cuentistas cubanas de hoy (Argentina, 2001), Irreverente Eros (short story, 2001), Palabras de espuma (2001), De Cuba te cuento (short story, Puerto Rico, 2002), Los caminos de Eva (short story, Puerto Rico, 2002), Mujeres de Cuba. International Colloquium of Bordeaux 1998 (France, 2002), Marino Wilson Jay: La esperanza y el hombre (2002), Cicatrices en la memoria (2003), La paz no necesita de palomas (2003), Mi sagrada familia (short story, 2004), Los últimos caníbales (Puerto Rico, 2004), Conversación con el búfalo blanco (short story, 2005), Veinte años cuentan (short story, 2006), Critical Assessment of José Soler Puig (essay, 2006) and Catalogue of Ediciones Holguín. 1986-2006 (2006).

She has collaborated in La gaceta de Cuba, Unión, Letras Cubanas, El Caimán Barbudo, Signos, Revolución y Cultura, La Revista del Libro Cubano, Alma Mater, Mujeres, Santiago, Del Caribe, SiC, Perfil de Santiago, Maniabón, Mambí, Ideas, Diéresis and Ámbito, as well as La porte des poetes (France), Mango Season (England) and Caracola (Venezuela). Her works have been translated into English and Russian.

She holds the National Culture Award.

This writer has only two published titles to her name, but they have allowed her to make a name for herself in the field of Cuban narrative and to appear in numerous anthologies, both those that address the short story as a whole and those that capture the universe of the genre when it is women who work with it. Thus, Aida Bahr occupies a very prominent place in those specific books that are Estatuas de sal, an anthology prepared by Mirta Yáñez and Marylin Bobes, and Mujeres 2, another selection, printed in Argentina, that brings together the universe of today's Latin American woman.

Through fresh language and skillful handling of contemporary narrative techniques, she reflects in her short stories the complexities and human contradictions—of men and women—that generate the reality of present-day Cuba.
She serves as director of Editorial Oriente.

Works by the author:

Fuera de Límite (short stories, Ediciones Uvero, 1983)

Hay un gato en la ventana (short stories, Letras Cubanas, 1984)

Ellas, de noche (short stories, Letras Cubanas, 1989)

Rafael Soler, una mirada al hombre (essay, Oriente, 1995)

Espejismos (short stories, Unión, 1998)

Las voces y los ecos (novel, Plaza Mayor, Puerto Rico, 2004 - Unión, Cuba, 2006)

José Soler Puig: el narrador (essay, Ediciones Santiago, 2006)

Ofelias (short stories, Letras Cubanas, 2007)