MADRID, Spain.- This Saturday, at 7:30 in the afternoon, the Cuban writer and playwright Grethel Delgado presents her novel at the Museum of the Cuban Diaspora Don’t talk to me about Cubaabout him exile Cuban.
During the meeting, Delgado will have a talk with the writer and journalist Luis de la Paz, in which the writers Pedro Medina and Gastón Virkel, members of the Editorial Board of Suburbano Ediciones, in charge of the publication, will also participate.
As the author explained to Newspaper Las Americasa medium where she is a collaborator, when she began writing the novel she had thought of a “more hopeful” title, but having experienced something similar to what her character (Gertrudis) experienced after returning to Isla after settling in Miami, made her rethink title.
When rewriting the novel, which she had begun about ten years ago, “I was already another, something similar to what Gertrudis experienced when she had the bitter slip of returning to Cuba after spending several years in Miami had gone through me. So somehow Gertrudis embodies that chronic malaise of the exile who, even loving his country to the core (the one that does not stain even a dictatorship, because it is anchored in the purest nostalgia), feels at the same time a rejection of the litany of ‘Oh, Cuba, how you hurt me’”, he specified in this regard.
The text had its first draft when Delgado was in Spain, as a resident of the Antonio Gala Foundation for young creators, between 2013 and 2014.
After the first presentation of the book, last November, Suburbano Ediciones pointed: “The return to the origins and the affections of the immigrant. This book is not a trip, it is a sensory experience that yearns for and repudiates a Havana blurred by nostalgia and hopelessness.
The return to the origins and the affections of the immigrant. This book is not a trip, it is a sensory experience that yearns for and repudiates a Havana blurred by nostalgia and hopelessness.#Don’tTalkMeOfCuba_SEd of @GrethelDelgado_ #Cuba
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The writer, born in Havana in 1987, has published Butterflies, my ideal family and Need for cults. Among other recognitions, she was a finalist for the VII Aura Estrada International Literature Award (Mexico-USA, 2021), won the Theater Calendar Award (Cuba, 2012) and the David Theater Award (Cuba, 2009).
