Literature

José Alberto Acosta Pérez

Cuban poet, literary critic, and novelist with an extensive bibliography, particularly in the field of poetry, where he garnered important accolades

José Manuel Poveda

Mirval de Eteocles, Filián de Montalver, Darío Notho, Raúl de Nangis, Fabio Stabia, Alma Rubens

Cuban writer, author of the poem "El grito abuelo", included in the book Versos precursores (1917), considered as the precursor of Negrismo

Ramón de Palma

Alfonso de Maldonado

Following family tradition, he studied law and received his degree as a lawyer

Emiliano Florentino

He was a bookkeeper, stenographer, typist, and accountant before dedicating himself to museology

Gastón Baquero

Native of Banes, he was an important Cuban writer and poet of the twentieth century, who after the Cuban revolution lived in exile in Spain

Graziella Pogolotti Jacobson

Art critic, prestigious essayist and outstanding Cuban intellectual, promoter of Cuban Plastic Arts

María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz Montalvo

Condesa de Merlín

Considered one of the first female writers of Cuba

Carlos Alberto Boissier

Bolito, el poeta Mambí, Oscar

Poet born in Matanzas, they called him the Mambí Poet

Manuel Serafín Pichardo Peralta

Illustrious Cuban poet and journalist

Antonio Benítez Rojo

Narrator, film screenwriter, essayist and Cuban university professor

José Manuel Carballido Rey

Relevant writer and director of television programs in Cuba

Medardo Vitier

Pedagogue, radiant spirit, poet

Carlos Loveira Chirino

One of the most relevant writers of the early twentieth century in Cuba

Regino Pedroso Aldama

Cuban avant-garde poet, initiator of social poetry on the Island

Enrique Loynaz Muñoz

Belonging to the Loynaz family, being the brother of Dulce María and son of brigadier of the Liberating Army Enrique Loynaz del Castillo can mean a heavy burden of responsibility for those who walk the ...

Manuel de Zequeira Arango

Izmael Raquenue, Ezequiel Armuna, Ezequiel Amura, Anselmo Erquea Gravina, Raquel Yum Zenea, El Observador de la Havana, El bruxo de la Havana, el Marqués Nueya, Arnezio Garaique, El Licenciado Freisesomorum, La horma de su zapato, Armenau Queizel, El crit

He is considered the first Cuban poet

Aniceto Valdivia

Conde Kostia

An illustrious writer, journalist, poet, critic, lecturer, playwright, and diplomat who, under the pseudonym Conde Kostia, revealed himself as one of the most interesting and representative figures of ...

Mary Cruz

Born in Camagüey

Dulcila Cañizares

Born in Santiago de las Vegas, she is a professor of piano, music theory, and solfège; she studied harmony, music history, and Italian

Jesús Díaz

Renowned Cuban filmmaker and writer

Emilia Bernal Agüero

Great lady of Cuban literature, poet who cultivated other genres such as essay, translation, and autobiographical novel

Antonio Castells Trujillo

Castells, whom national memory has involuntarily relegated to oblivion, despite the brilliance he brought to his country with his extensive work, was, according to Núñez Rodríguez, one of the best sainete ...

Hilarión Cabrisas

Cuban poet and journalist

Julio Matas

He was born in Havana, Cuba

Desiderio Navarro Pérez

Researcher and critic of literature and art

Calvert Casey Fernández

Cuban writer of North American origin, he was part of the group of intellectuals gathered around Lunes de Revolución

Alcides Iznaga

Writer, teacher, poet, novelist, and pedagogue

Bernardo G. Barros Gómez

Ariel

Distinguished Cuban journalist and writer

Antonio Hernández Pérez

He was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, but we consider him a native of Villa Clara and Cuban because when he was only one year old his family traveled to Cuba and settled in Yaguajay

Roberto González Echevarría

Cuban-American researcher of Latin American culture and literature

Emiliano Florentino Morales Hernández

Writer, poet, researcher Florentino was a gift from the Three Kings to his first-time parents: Eulogio and Irene

Rafael Otero

Cuban writer and poet recognized for having exerted great influence on Cuban Literature, where he began his journalism career with chronicles that garnered attention

Adolfo Martí Fuentes

Professor at the University of La Habana and National Director of Literature of the former National Council of Culture

Legna Rodríguez Iglesias

Legna is one of the young Cuban writers who won the 2008 Calendario Prize awarded by the Hermanos Saíz Association

Alberto Guerra Naranjo

Alberto Guerra holds a degree in History and Social Sciences, cultivates criticism and essays, is a film screenwriter and one of the most important Cuban narrators of the present time

Gino Ginoris

Poet, narrator, and editor

Martha Acosta Álvarez

Cuban writer, poet and editor

Karla Suárez

Writer, narrator, electronic engineer

Abel Prieto Jiménez

Politician, writer, short story writer, editor and professor

Ena Lucía Portela Arzola

Cuban narrator and essayist

María del Carmen Ariet García

Researcher and Associate Senior Professor at the University of La Habana, where she has worked as a teacher and lecturer in postgraduate courses, workshops, and seminars

Antonio Rodríguez Salvador

Cuban poet, narrator, playwright and essayist

Senel Paz

Writer and film screenwriter

César Antonio de Jesús López Núñez

Poet, narrator, essayist, diplomat, writer, literary-medical critic and Cuban professor

Víctor Batista Falla

Víctor Batista was an extraordinary Cuban, and his death in Havana is incredibly symbolic