Lo scrittore cubano Leonardo Padura

Cuban writer Leonardo Padura poses for the camera as he takes a brake from the course ‘Literary and social strategies in police novels’ he’s teaching at Internacional University Menendez Pelayo in Santander, northern Spain on 17 August 2010. During a press conference Padura said to reporters his decision to continue living in Cuba is completely ‘personal, familiar, literary and Cuban’ and defined himself not as a member of the ‘establishment’ nor as a ‘dissident’ but as a ‘participant’ in the process of change Cuba is currently undergoing.

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