Leonardo Padura Fuentes

Leonardo Padura Fuentes ( born 1955 in Havana ) is one of the most successful and popular contemporary writers of Cuba and has the Cuban crime novel from scratch renewed ( la novela neopolicíaca / neopolicial ). For his work he received numerous awards and prizes.

Life and work

In 1980 he completed his studies in literature at the University of Havana. His reports as a journalist for El caimán barbudo had a lot of success. But since they scraped taboos followed as a sanction his move to the youth magazine Juventud rebelde. Besides, he published literary essays and books. He wrote about Alejo Carpentier, on Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and about the life and work of several other Cuban and Latin American authors. He was chief editor of La Gaceta de Cuba in 1989 and began to write detective novels.

In his " Havana Quartet ", he captures the specific atmosphere of the crisis years of the early 1990s, in which Cuba had economically to suffer from the disappearance of the solidarity and trade relations with the former Soviet bloc. The police commissioner Teniente ( Lieutenant ) Mario Conde as the protagonist represents a generation of disillusioned and romantic nostalgic. He suffers under the working conditions and separates logical in the course of his personality development in the last volume of the tetralogy The Sea of ​​illusions from the police profession. This is quite similar to that of Jean -Claude Izzo's Marseilles trilogy. The further dealt with the identification of increasingly lying in the past death puzzles Mario Conde is reflected in the three most recent novels now seven -part series as buyer and seller of antiquarian books by. In any case, the author was never on the mapping of real police work is interesting, but insisted that his characters should obey especially narrative laws.

Padura uses the detective genre as a framework for social novels that reflect the worlds of experience and way of life of contemporary Cubans. He breaks with the earlier usual clichés. So just Cubans from higher social classes are represented in a role as a culprit, what Cuba would not have been possible at the time of state-sponsored socialist detective fiction ( Luis Rogelio Nogueras, Daniel Chavarria ).

In the novel The man who loved dogs, he describes three narrative threads life Ramón Mercaders, Leon Trotsky's time in exile and the life of Cuban writer Iván, who happened to come across Mercader on the beach of Havana.

Awards

With the sea of ​​illusions Padura is honored in 2nd place and with the maze of masks in 10th place in the crime world -best list in 2005 for the best crime novel of the year. For Adiós Hemingway Leonardo Padura received the 2007 German Thriller Prize - International, 3rd place, while he was on the sea of illusion and La Neblina del ayer twice awarded the prestigious Spanish Premio Hammett Detective Fiction Prize. 2008 Padura achieved with the mist of yesterday the 5th place in the crime world leaderboard for the best thriller of the year. 2011, the French Prix Roger Caillois, he was awarded for Latin American Literature. In 2012 he was awarded the Cuban National Prize for Literature, 2013, awarded by the French government Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Works

Novels

  • 2001 Adiós Hemingway Adios Hemingway, German by Hans -Joachim Hartenstein; Union, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-293-00362-1
  • The fog of yesterday, Germany by Hans -Joachim Hartenstein; Union, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-293-00388-0
  • The man who loved dogs, German by Hans -Joachim Hartenstein; Union, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-293-00425-2
  • The tail of the snake, German by Hans -Joachim Hartenstein; Union, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3293004405

Tetralogy " Las cuatro estaciones ", dt The Havana Quartet:

  • Trade of the feelings, German by Hans -Joachim Hartenstein; Union, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-293-00322-2
  • Maze of masks, German by Hans -Joachim Hartenstein; Union, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-293-00323-0
  • The sea of ​​illusions, German by Hans -Joachim Hartenstein; Union, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-293-00324-9

Stories

  • Fiebre de caballos, 1988
  • Según pasan los años 1989
  • La puerta de Alcalá y otras cacerías, 1997
  • La cola de la serpiente, 1998 ( later expanded into the novel )
  • Nueve noches con Amada Luna, 2006, ISBN 978-8-49659250-6

Essays

  • Con la espada y con la pluma: comentarios al Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 1984
  • Colón, Carpentier, la mano, el arpa y la sombra, 1987
  • El alma en el terreno, 1989 ( interviews )
  • Lo real maravilloso: creación y realidad, 1989
  • Un camino de medio siglo: Alejo Carpentier y la narrativa de lo real maravilloso, 1994
  • Modernidad, posmodernidad y novela policial, 2000
  • José María Heredia: La patria y la vida, Ediciones Unión, Havana 2003, ISBN 978-9-59209469-7

Journalistic work

  • El viaje más largo, 1994
  • Los rostros de la salsa 1997
  • La noche triste de Chano Pozo, 2013 published as an e -Book at iTunes biographical documentary from 1985
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