The popular character, created by the genius of Leonardo Padura, is now living his best patch of luck on Barcelona’s stages.

There is absolutely no doubt that Mario Conde is a lucky guy. In spite of his disastrous life and his already incurable tendency to comb the darkest sides of society, the popular character created by writer Leonardo Padura is not only winning over readers, but lately he has also started living other lives, always parallel, which have taken him from literature to cinema and television, led by Spanish director Félix Viscarret.

Baseball has become the principal focus of attention in a text that demystifies it and mixes it with multiple aspects of our nationality.

Presented by Leonardo Padura last February during the Havana branch of the International Book Fair 2016, Béisbol y nación en Cuba (Baseball and Nation in Cuba), by university professor Félix Julio Alfonso López, is a very valuable contribution to the history of the national sport that, though sustained by passion, is the fruit of the pressing investigative rigor and the efficacious expression that a dominating and charming narrator places on the “game’s field” beyond the nine innings.

The recognition is awarded for the first time to a Latin American.

Last May 9, Cuban writer Leonardo Padura was awarded in Italy the 2016 Apoxiomeno International Prize, a recognition given every year to figures with an outstanding trajectory in the sphere of culture, show business or sports and who have made a notable contribution in subjects related to law and order.

The Onelio Jorge Cardoso Literary Formation Centre and its Cajachica Publishers propose a new way of making books.

Despite the detractors that the Cuban Onelio Jorge Cardoso Literary Formation Centre could have, by now the renovation it has carried out in the country’s literature in terms of making visible young writers and letting them work is undeniable.