Lina de Feria Barrios

Cuban poet and essayist. Graduated with a degree in Philology from the University of La Habana in 1976. She has worked as a writer and editor in various serial publications, while also carrying out profound creative work, to the point of being considered today one of the most prominent voices of current feminine poetry. She received the David Prize in 1967 with the book "Casa que no existía", shared with Luis Rogelio Nogueras, Wichy. In 2008 she obtained the Nicolás Guillén Prize, convened by the Instituto Cubano del Libro and Editorial Letras Cubanas, for her book "Ante la pérdida del Safari a la jungla". She was Editor-in-Chief of the cultural magazine El Caimán Barbudo. In 2005, she was nominated for the National Literature Prize. In 2015 she received the Prize Teacher of Youth awarded by AHS.

She appears in numerous anthologies from Cuba and around the world. In 2008 she obtained the Nicolás Guillén Prize, convened by the Instituto Cubano del Libro and Editorial Letras Cubanas, for her book Ante la pérdida del Safari a la jungla.

Literary Career
She received the David Prize in 1967 with the book Casa que no existía, shared with Luis Rogelio Nogueras, Wichy. Following the publication of volumes titled A mansalva de los años, 1990; El ojo milenario, 1995; Rituales del inocente, 1996 and A la llegada del delfín, she has been a recipient of the Critics' Prize on four occasions. She was Editor-in-Chief of the cultural magazine El Caimán Barbudo and in 2005, she was nominated for the National Literature Prize.

She worked as a writer for the cultural page of the newspaper Juventud Rebelde in 1967 and was a notes writer for Radio Enciclopedia during the period from 1972 to 1980. She also served as a literary advisor in Güines between the years 1986 and 1988 and in the early 1990s was an editor at Editorial José Martí.

As one of the most distinctive voices of her generation, she appears in multiple poetic anthologies published in the United States, Spain, France, Great Britain, Austria, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Nicaragua, and her work has received the attention of several degree theses in universities in the United States, France, and Cuba.

In Madrid, Spain, the poetry magazine Autogiro (No. 1, 1998) published her book El ojo milenario in its entirety. She has given recitals in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

She was invited to the Zócalo Fair in Mexico City in 2004 and 2005. In the second of these years she attended the presentation of the Mexican edition of her book A mansalva de los años. As a researcher and literary critic, she has published essays in magazines in Cuba and Spain, and has distinguished herself in the study of some of the most relevant poets of the Orígenes Group. She has been a member of the Association of Writers of UNEAC since 1993. She is an Ambassador of the World Poets Movement in Cuba.

Active Bibliography

Editorial Letras Cubanas, 2009
Casa que no existía (Ediciones Unión, UNEAC, La Habana, 1968)
A mansalva de los años (Ediciones Unión, UNEAC, La Habana, 1990)
A mansalva de los años (Ed.. La Cuadrilla de la Langosta, México DF, 2005)
Espiral en tierra (Ediciones Unión, La Habana, 1991)
El ojo milenario (Editorial Sed de belleza, Santa Clara, Cuba, 1995)
El ojo milenario (Ed. L'Hartmattan, París, 2000, bilingual edition)
Los rituales del inocente (La Rueda Dentada, UNEAC, La Habana, 1996)
A la llegada del delfín (Ediciones Unión, UNEAC, La Habana, 1998)
El mar de las invenciones (Editorial Letras Cubanas, ICL, La Habana, 1999)
El libro de los equívocos (Ediciones Unión, UNEAC, La Habana, 2001)
El rostro equidistante (Editorial Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, 2001)
País sin abedules (Ediciones Unión, UNEAC, La Habana, 2003)
Omisión de la noche (Ediciones Matanzas, Cuba, 2003)
Absolución del amor (Ediciones Unión, UNEAC, La Habana, 2005)
Antología Boreal (Letras Cubanas, 2007)
La rebelión de los indemnes (Ediciones La Luz, 2008)
Ante la pérdida del safari a la jungla (Editorial Letras Cubanas, 2009)
De los fuegos concéntricos (Eds. Unión, 2009)
Espacios imaginarios (Eds. Extramuros, 2010)
Caminando en el ocre (Editorial Gente Nueva, 2012)
Los poemas de la alquimia (Ediciones Matanzas, 2013)
Jaque a la muerte, poemario (Editorial Unicornio, 2014)

Awards and Distinctions

Receives Prize Teacher of Youth awarded by AHS.
1961: Children's Theater Prize in the Contest La Edad de Oro for the works Los dos vecinos y la Clavelera and La Gran Fiesta
1967: Founding Prize of the David Contest of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) for her poetry collection Casa que no existía
1991: National Critics' Prize for her poetry collection A mansalva de los años
1991: Poetry Prize in the literary contest of the Arab Union of Cuba for her poetry collection El libro de los espejismos
1996: National Critics' Prize for her poetry collection El ojo milenario
1997: National Critics' Prize for her poetry collection Rituales del inocente
1998: National Critics' Prize for her poetry collection A la llegada del delfín
1999: Raúl Hernández Novas International Poetry Prize for her poetry collection El libro de los equívocos
2003: Order of National Culture from the Ministry of Culture of Cuba
2007: Hope Prize from the Association of Hermanos Saíz
2008: Nicolás Guillén Prize for her notebook Ante la pérdida del Safari a la jungla
2015: Prize Teacher of Youth awarded by AHS
2019: National Literature Prize