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Marilyn Bobes, First Guantanamera Award of Cuban Literature

The writer Marilyn Bobes (Havana, 1955) has been awarded the first Guantanamera Award for Cuban Literature for her book, Alguien tiene que llorar otra vez.

The award is given by Editorial Guantanamera, specialized in current Cuban narrative, and integrated into the Lantia group, and has the support of Carmen Balcells Literary Agency.

"I feel a tremendous happiness for this award, I trust that it will help all my Cuban authors to open a window of international attention, we have a lot to tell and we look forward to being heard," the writer said when she heard the news. 

The awarded work, Alguien tiene que llorar otra vez, explores "without concessions, honestly and crudely" the female universe and its problems in the contemporary world.

Carmen Balcells Literary Agency will assume the author's representation.

María de los Ángeles (Marilyn) Bobes León (Havana, 1955). From a very young age she was a journalist at the Latin American news agency Prensa Latina. She has a degree in History from the University of Havana. With her first book of poems, La aguja en el pajar, she won in 1979 the David de Poesía Prize for unpublished writers of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC). Then came other poem collections, such as Hallar el modo  and Impresiones y Comentarios. She has also excelled in fiction, obtaining many awards for her work as a storyteller and novelist. Among them we can find the Edmundo Valdés Latin American Prize in Mexico and the Magda Portal in Peru (only for women). She also won the Casa de las Américas Prize in 1995. This recognition returned to her hands in 2005 for her novel Fiebre de Invierno. In 2016 she was awarded the Julio Cortázar Ibero-American Short Story Prize.