Excilia Saldaña Molina

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Poet, teacher, translator, and writer of children's literature, Cuban. Her work achieved great circulation in her native country and abroad.

She was born in La Habana, Cuba. She graduated with a degree in Spanish and Literature from the Instituto Superior Pedagógico Enrique José Varona, and was a professor of History and Literature in secondary education. She later worked at the Casa de las Américas and was an editor of the Santiago magazine and Head of Off-Campus Programs at the Universidad de Oriente. She was Head of the Film Section of the University Extension Department and editor at Editorial Gente Nueva.

She was an adjunct professor of Children's Literature at the universities of Las Villas and Pinar del Río, and a translator of children's literature from English, Russian, German, Hungarian, and Czech. Her work, in turn, has been translated into English, Russian, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Serbo-Croatian, Arabic, among others.

Books
She wrote more than twenty books of poems and narratives. Among the first are the following.

Active Bibliography
El refranero de la Víbora, Editorial Gente Nueva, 1989, 105 pp.
Enlloró. Honorable mention in the Casa de Las Américas Prize.
Un testigo de la historia (essay), 1979, 38 pp.
articulos_179Soñando y viajando (poetry), 1980, 40 pp.
Flor para amar (Notes on women in Martí's work) (essay), 1980, 69 pp.
Cantos para un mayito y una paloma (poetry), Editorial Gente Nueva, 1983, 86 pp.
De la Isla del Tesoro a la Isla de la Juventud.
Bulgaria el país de las rosas (informational), 1987, 101 pp.
Kele Kele (short story), 1987, 167 pp.
La noche (poetry), 1989, 218 pp.
Mi nombre: antielegía familiar (poetry), 1991, 33 pp.
Lengua de trapo, Editorial Gente Nueva.
El misterioso caso de los maravillosos cascos de Doña Cuca Bregante, Ediciones Capitán San Luis, Editorial Gente Nueva, 2000.
Jícara de miel, Editorial Gente Nueva, 2000.
La lechuza y el sijú, Editorial Gente Nueva, 2002.
Kric en el país de las frutas, Editorial Gente Nueva, 2005.

Passive Bibliography
Chacón Nardi, Rafaela: "¿Para un mayito y una paloma solamente?", En julio como en enero, may.'86, 31-32 pp.
Rodríguez, Antonio Orlando: "Kele Kele, ancestros y contemporaneidad", Letras Cubanas, jul.-sep.'88, 311-316 pp.
Sánchez, Magaly: "Sobre Kele Kele de Excilia Saldaña". En La Jiribilla


Awards and Recognition
Raúl Gómez García Award
Award for National Culture
Poetry mention in the Casa de las Américas Contest, 1967, for her work Enlloró
Mention in the La Edad de Oro contest, 1979, for Cantos para un mayito y una paloma
Prize in the UNEAC contest, 1979, for Cantos para un mayito y una paloma
La Rosa Blanca Prize, 1984
La Edad de Oro Prize at the preschool level, 1984, together with David Chericián, for his work Compay Tito
La Rosa Blanca Prize, 1987, for her narrative work Kele Kele
La Rosa Blanca Prize, 1988, for her work Compay Tito