Martha Acosta Álvarez

Cuban writer, poet and editor. She obtained, among others, the Julio Cortázar short story prize 2018.

She was born in Sibanicú, province of Camagüey. She studied at the University of Computer Sciences, UCI, and there she graduated as an Engineer in Computer Sciences.

Member of the Asociación de Hermanos Saiz (AHS). Graduate of the XVII Course of Narrative Techniques of the Onelio Jorge Cardoso Literary Training Center.

She obtained an honorable mention in the David Prize 2015 for poetry. She won the Cesar Galeano short story prize 2015. Finalist in the Celestino short story prize 2016. Finalist of the XXI La Gaceta de Cuba Poetry Prize 2016. First honorable mention in the Emilio Ballagas Narrative prize 2016. She won the Pinos Nuevos Narrative Prize 2016 with the book Pájaros azules (Editorial Letras Cubanas, 2016). She won the Calendario Narrative Prize 2017 and Paco Mir Mulet Narrative Prize 2017. She has published the books Pajaros azules, (Letras Cubanas, 2016) and Doce años es demasiado tiempo, (Guantanamera, 2017).

The Franz Kafka Novel Prize of 2018, belonging to the inCUBAdora Project (Libri Prohibiti), decided to award Martha Acosta Álvarez for her novel 'La periferia'. A novel that in an innovative way delves into the world of Cuba and reviews its reality from another perspective. That place where at the same time that the real (or everyday) is present the writing, its spaces of play, its "song"…