Elaine Vilar Madruga, Cuba

Narradora, Poeta y Dramatua / Fiction writer, Poet, and Playwright

ESP. Elaine Vilar Madruga (La Habana, 1989) es narradora, poeta y dramaturga. Es considerada una de las voces literarias más importantes de la Cuba y el Caribe actuales. Con siete ediciones, uno de sus mayores éxitos de ventas y de crítica es la novela La tiranía de las moscas, la cual obtuvo el Premio Cálamo como Mejor Libro del Año en 2021. En 2023 se lanzó en España su novela El cielo de la selva, publicada en Barcelona por Lava Editorial, la cual ha sido acogida con éxito por la crítica especializada y los lectores (con nueve ediciones en dos años). Sus textos abordan las políticas individuales del cuerpo, el género y las disidencias, y las políticas relacionadas con la Historia reciente de su país en contextos de opresión, silencio y claustrofobia.

ENG. Elaine Vilar Madruga (Havana, 1989) is a fiction writer, poet, and playwright. She is considered one of the most important literary voices in contemporary Cuba and the Caribbean. The most critically and commercially successful of her seven works is the novel La tiranía de las moscas, which won the Cálamo Prize for Best Book of the Year in 2021. In 2023, her novel El cielo de la selva was released in Spain by Lava Editorial in Barcelona; it  has been warmly received by critics and readers alike, reaching and was reprinted nine editions times in just two years. Her work explores individual politics of the body, gender, and dissidence, as well as the politics that surrounding her country’s recent history, often set in contexts ofand highlights oppression, silence, and claustrophobia

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4 August 2025

Elaine Vilar Madruga, Cuba

Narradora, Poeta y Dramatua / Fiction writer, Poet, and Playwright

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