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Cuban Literature: Cuban Books, Cuban Writers, Before Night Falls, Ediciones El Puente, Havana's International Book Fair, List of Cuban Writers

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Cuban Literature: Cuban Books, Cuban Writers, Before Night Falls, Ediciones El Puente, Havana's International Book Fair, List of Cuban Writers
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Cuban Books, Cuban Writers, Before Night Falls, Ediciones El Puente, Havana's International Book Fair, List of Cuban Writers, Marcelo Pogolotti, Casa de Las Américas Prize. Excerpt: Ediciones El Puente (The Bridge Publications) was a literary project for young writers in Cuba just after the 1959 revolution. Between 19611965 they published each other's work, introduced dozens of new voices, and held readings and performances. Some of the writers that got their start there include poet and translator Nancy Morejón, playwright Gerardo Fulleda León, now director of the Rita Montaner theater company in Havana, playwright-activist Ana Maria Simo, and folklorist Miguel Barnet. Nevertheless, El Puente is remembered primarily as one of the casualties of the wave of social repression in Cuba in the 60s and 70s. Accused, among other things, of fostering homosexuality, Black Power, publishing exiles, and consorting with foreigners, some members were detained, and/or sent to the UMAP concentration camps. A few left the country. Cuban literary critics are beginning to address the group, and in 2005, the Gaceta de Cuba published a series of pieces on El Puente. El Puente was begun by José Mario Rodríguez, a young poet who perceived the post-revolution literary world in Havana as closed to new writers. " only covered people connected to the director Guillermo Caberera Infante, and they never reviewed books by young writers." He wanted to create a publishing project that would be open to everyone, "Especially young people, new people. We wanted to find new talents with quality works inside Cuban culture. That's the thing that interested us most." Gerardo Fulleda León remembered meeting José Mario at a theater workshop in 1961 which was also
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