Daína Chaviano

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Daina Chaviano (Havana) is a Cuban writer. She earned her B.A. degree in English Language, at the University of Havana. While living in Cuba, she published several science fiction and fantasy books, becoming the most renowned and best-selling author in those genres in Cuban literature. She has been equally successful as a writer of fantasy/SF and in mainstream literature, winning various awards in both fields.

Her literary subjects cover mythology, eroticism, ancient history, sociology, politics and magic, all blended in a unique personal style of poetic and sensual images.

Her most recent novels, belonging to the series «The Occult Side of Havana», are El hombre, la hembra y el hambre (Azorín Prize for Best Novel, Planeta 1998), Casa de juegos (Planeta 1999), Gata encerrada (Planeta 2001), and La isla de los amores infinitos (Grijalbo 2006), whose publishing rights have been sold to 21 languages, becoming the most translated Cuban novel of all time.

Daina Chaviano was awarded the Gold Medal in the category of Best Spanish Language Book during the first Florida Book Awards 2006, for La isla de los amores infinitos. The English version, The Island of Eternal Love, will be published in June 2008 (Riverhead Books-Penguin), translated by Andrea Labinger.

Chaviano has lived in the US since 1991.

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[edit] Works in English

  • 2008: The Island of Eternal Love (trans. by Andrea Labinger). Riverhead Books-Penguin Group, New York (coming in June).[1]
  • 2003: "The Annunciation" (short story, trans. by Juan Carlos Toledano), Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain, Edit.by Andrea L. Bell & Yolanda Molina-Gavilán. Wesleyan UP, Connecticut.

[edit] Works in Spanish

Outside Cuba:

  • 2007: Historias de hadas para adultos (novellas). Minotauro, Spain.
  • 2006: La isla de los amores infinitos (novel). Grijalbo, Spain.
  • 2005: El abrevadero de los dinosaurios (short stories). Nueva Imagen, Mexico.
  • 2004: Los mundos que amo (short novel). Alfaguara, Colombia.
  • 2003: Fábulas de una abuela extraterrestre (novel). Oceano, Mexico.
  • 2001: País de dragones (short stories). Espasa Juvenil, Spain.
  • 2001: Gata encerrada (novel). Planeta, Spain.
  • 1999: Casa de juegos (novel). Planeta, Spain.
  • 1998: El hombre, la hembra y el hambre (novel). Planeta, Spain.
  • 1994: Confesiones eróticas y otros hechizos (poetry). Betania, Spain.

In Cuba:

  • 1990: El abrevadero de los dinosaurios (short stories).
  • 1989: La anunciación (film script).
  • 1988: Fábulas de una abuela extraterrestre (novel).
  • 1986: Historias de hadas para adultos (novellas).
  • 1983: Amoroso planeta (short stories).
  • 1980: Los mundos que amo (short stories).

[edit] Awards

  • 2007: Gold Medal Winner in the Florida Book Awards, for Best Spanish Language Book (USA). La isla de los amores infinitos.
  • 2004: Guest of Honor at the 25th International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale (USA).
  • 2003: Goliardos Fantasy International Award (Mexico). Fábulas de una abuela extraterrestre.
  • 1998: Azorín Prize for Best Novel (Spain). El hombre, la hembra y el hambre.
  • 1990: Anna Seghers Award, Academy of Arts in Berlin (Germany). Fábulas de una abuela extraterrestre.
  • 1989: "La Edad de Oro" ("The Golden Age") National Prize of Children's and Young People's Literature (Cuba). País de dragones.
  • 1988: “13 de marzo”, Best Literary Film Script (Cuba). La anunciación.
  • 1979: David National Prize for Best SF Book (Cuba). Los mundos que amo.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Laura Dail Literary Agency News.

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