Zoé Valdés
Zoé Valdés ( born 2 May 1959 in Havana ) is a Cuban writer.
She studied at the Instituto Superior Enrique José Varona Pedagógico, but abandoned his studies without a degree. She then studied for two years at the Philological Faculty of the University of Havana, but also did not finish this study with a conclusion. Between 1984 and 1988 she was a member of the Cuban delegation to UNESCO and the Oficina Cultural de la Misión de Cuba in Paris. She then returned to Cuba, where he worked as a writer and screenwriter. From 1990, she was Deputy Director of the journal Cine Cubano. After the publication of her novel La nada cotidiana in 1995 in France, which caused outrage in the Castro regime, she returned to the island back and settled in Paris, where she lives with her third husband and her daughter since.
Bibliography
- German: Yours is my life, translated by Susanne Lange, Goldmann, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3442723973
- German: Café Cuba, translated by Klaus Laabs, Goldmann, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3442734283
- German: beloved first love, translated by Peter Schwaar, Goldmann, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3442730582