The 2012 winner of Cuba’s National Prize for Literature, Leonardo Padura is perhaps best known for his Havana Quartet detective series. Writing from the house where he was born, near Havana, Padura has authored several novels as well as short fiction and essays. The English translation of El hombre que amaba a los perros (The Man Who Loved Dogs), forthcoming in December, will be Padura’s first U.S. publication.
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2021. 402 pages.
IN DISCUSSIONS OF writers considered to be pushing the limits of the traditional detective story, the works of Cuban writer Leona...
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2017. 528 pages.
This rich and brilliant evocation of Jewish history will only burnish the already extraordinary reputation of the author of the acclaimed The...
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This essay is adapted from Leonardo Padura’s November 2012 speech in Havana, Cuba, at the Casa de las Améri...
Photo by Tortured Mind Photography/FlickrOnce again using the lens provided by detective fiction, Leonardo Padura magnifies various aspects of Cuban reality for his readers. “...