Zoé Valdés

Zoé Valdés was born on 2 May 1959 in Havana. A prize-winning poet from 1982, she worked from 1984 to 1988 at the Cuban delegation to UNESCO in Paris, then, back in Cuba, as a screenwriter for the film institute and deputy director of the review Cine Cubano. Invited to Paris in 1995, she settled there with her family and could not return to Cuba; she obtained Spanish nationality in 1997. A prolific novelist and finalist for the Planeta Prize in 1996, she received the Azorín Prize in 2013.

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• NovelYocandra in the Paradise of NadaLa nada cotidianaZoé Valdés · 1995Literature