El Viejo, El Asesino, Yo Y Otros Cuentos

Resumen del Libro

El viejo, el asesino, yo y otros cuentos gathers nine stories and a testimonial essay by Ena Lucia Portela, who began to publish in the 1990s and has been recognized as one of the outstanding stars of recent Cuban fiction. Portela was born Dec. 19, 1972 in Havana, where she still lives. She is the author of the novels El pajaro: pincel y tinta china (1999), La sombra del caminante (2001), Cien botellas en una pared (2002, winner that year of the Jaen Novel Prize awarded by the Caja de Ahorros of Granada, Spain, and 2003 winner of the Prix Litteraire Deux Oceans Grinzane Cavour awarded by French critics), y Djuna y Daniel (2008, recipient of the Cuban Critics Award), and the short story collections Una extrana entre las piedras (1999) and Alguna enfermedad muy grave (2006). She writes occasionally for the newspaper El Pais of Spain, and for magazines such as Index on Censorship, Encuentro de la cultura cubana, SoHo, Critica and La Siempreviva, among others. Portelas texts have appeared in many anthologies of short stories and essays, both in Cuba and in many other countries. Her work has appeared in nine languages and in over twenty countries. She was selected in May, 2007 as one of the 39 most important writers in Latin America under 39 year sold. The texts included in the present volume were published between 1993 and 2008 in two collections and various magazines. This volume closes with a testimonial essay, Alas rotas, first published in 2008. A short film based on Portelas story El viejo, el asesino y yo, 1999 winner of the Juan Rulfo Prize awarded by French International Radio, and used as the title of the present collection, will be shown at the Festival de Cine Pobre, in Gibara, Cuba. Besides being marvelous stories in themselves, this anthology provides an introduction to Portelas works of fiction and non-fiction. Literature is a key element in Portelas work, and references to books and authors of all eras are interwoven throughout her…