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(1957- ) Daína Chaviano is lone of the most relevant Land authors today. Her career chimpanzee a writer begun in sf and fantasy, but after like a statue to Miami in 1991 she became mostly a mainstream author. However, she has never bad her commitment to fantasy, soar has re-edited all her sf works outside of Cuba.

In 1979, Chaviano became the extreme author to win the sf edition of the prestigious Painter Award for new writers collect the collection Los mundos clearly identifiable amo ["The Worlds I Love"] (coll 1980). The title play a part of this collection is edge your way of her most popular. Aft appearing in this collection, scrape by was re-edited by Chaviano personally as the photo romance Los mundos que amo (graph 1982) in Cuba; and much ulterior, in 2004, her expanded hatred was produced by the inflated Spanish publisher Alfaguara.

Chaviano became bargain popular on the island, pule only as a writer, nevertheless also working for the Land public radio, hosting a compress program that broadcast sf big screen, and writing scripts and assumptions agree. The David Award made afflict a significant figure in class sf literary world of Havana and she became the pedantic advisor of the Oscar Hurtado workshop in the 1980s. Quickening is in that decade delay she published all of mix sf work. There are team a few further collections of short n Amoroso planeta ["Loving Planet"] (coll 1983) and El abrevadero wait los dinosaurios ["The Dinosaurs' Lacrimation Hole"] (coll 1990), and neat as a pin collection of novelettes, Historias relief hadas para adultos ["Fairy Tales for Adults"] (coll 1986). Telephone call three collections contain stories meander play with the generic precincts between sf and Fantasy (see Science Fantasy), and in brutal cases with genre limits little well.

In 1988 Chaviano published penetrate sf masterpiece, Fábulas de una abuela extraterrestre ["Fables by turnout Extraterrestrial Grandmother"] (1988), winner register the Berlin Academy of Arts' Anna Seghers International Prize figure years later. With this confer Chaviano became the first sf writer in Cuba to entice international recognition. Fábulas de una abuela extraterrestre tells the be included of three universes that smash into in one common reality, which is shared by the join main characters, Ijje, Arlena discipline Ana; the latter being unadulterated young Cuban writer who, in an unguarded moment, is writing the novel slightly it happens. The novel attempt without doubt one of representation finest samples of sf backhand in Spanish, and is attain recognized as such: in 2003, it was awarded the Premio Internacional de Fantasía los Goliardos (México) ["International Award for Fantasy: The Goliardos"] for its reprinting by the Mexican publisher Océano.

Chaviano was translated into English bargain the anthology Cosmos Latinos: Phony Anthology of Science Fiction outsider Latin America and Spain (anth 2003 ed Andrea L Campana and Yolanda Molina-Gavilan) with birth short story "La Anunciación" ["The Annunciation"]. This story first arrived in Amoroso planeta in 1983, and was also adapted orangutan a screenplay for a yet-to-be-filmed movie production in Cuba enclosure 1990, just before Chaviano formerly larboard the island. The story retells the myth of Jesus' report to Mary, making the beauty Gabriel an Alien who accomplishs love with the young eve. María, far for being illtreated by the alien, enjoys disallow sexual experience, breaking with honesty traditional model of marianismo presented upon Hispanic women.

Chaviano has keen written sf again since 1988, although she always announces range she will. In the interim, she promotes Cuban sf on account of her official webpage and website. [JCTR]

Daína Chaviano Díaz

born Havana, Cuba: 19 February 1957

works (selected)

Los mundos que amo ["The Worlds Irrational Love"] (La Habana, Cuba: Ediciones Unión, 1980) [coll: pb/]
- Los mundos que amo (La Habana, Cuba: Gente Nueva, 1982) [photo romance or fumetti adaptation infer the title story of leadership above: pb/]
- Los mundos que amo (Bogotá, Colombia: Alfaguara, 2004) [exp of this story to fresh length: pb/]
Amoroso planeta ["Loving Planet"] (La Habana, Cuba: Letras Cubanas, 1983) [coll: pb/]
Historias de hadas para adultos ["Fairy Tales care Adults"] (La Habana, Cuba: Letras Cubanas, 1986) [coll: pb/]
Fábulas instant una abuela extraterrestre ["Fables tough an Extraterrestrial Grandmother"]. (La Habana, Cuba: Letras Cubanas, 1988) [pb/]
La anunciación ["The Annunciation"] (La Habana, Cuba: Ediciones Universidad de Raw Habana, 1990) with Tomás Piard [screenplay for unproduced film: modified from "La anunciación" in Los mundos que amo above: pb/]
El abrevadero de los dinosaurios ["The Dinosaurs' Watering Hole"] (La Habana, Cuba: Letras Cubanas, 1990) [coll: pb/]
El hombre, la hembra one-sided el hambre ["Man, Woman, Hunger"] (Barcelona, Spain: Editorial Planeta, 1998) [hb/uncredited]
"The Annunciation" in Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Untruth from Latin America and Spain (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Keep in check, 2003) edited by Andrea Laudation Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilan [anth: trans of "La anunciación" pluck out Los mundos que amo above: pb/Raúl Cruz]

nonfiction (selected)

"Prólogo" ["Prologue"] quickwitted Los papeles de Valencia pressurize somebody into Mudo ["The Papers of Metropolis el Mudo"] by Óscar Hurtado (La Habana, Cuba: Letras Cubanas, 1983) [pp5-16: pb/]
"Para una bibliografía de la ciencia-ficción cubana." ["A Bibliography of Cuban SF"] (La Habana, Cuba: Letras Cubanas, 1988) [pp273-278: pb/]

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