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Jamila
MEDINA RÍOS

Holguín, 1981

Genre: Poetry , Narrative , Essays

Philologist and editor. Following the trail of the historical, intertwined with language and culture, she obtained her Master’s Degree in Applied Linguistics with a study on Cuban revolutionary rhetoric in the work of Nara Mansur and projects his doctorate on the Mambí ideology in the arts and young letters of Cuba today. She has published the storybooks: Rats in the high night (2011) and Writings in paper napkins (2011); the essay book Disseminations of Calvert Casey (Alejo Carpentier Award 2012). Her most famous side is poetry, which includes five poems: Spider´s hollow (Prize David 2008), Spring cut (2011 and 2012), Heart of the cabbage and other lies (2013), Anemone (2013/2016) and the notebook Country of the Siguaraya (Nicolás Guillén Award 2017). In Cuba and throughout the world, essays, dossiers and selections of hers have illustrated the work of her generation.

Country of the Siguaraya should be read as a compendium in which the map of a sector called Cuba has been (re) mapped: in [...] its contours, limits, accidents [...] Jamila Medina Ríos digs, with perfect support, in visitation: the direct experience on the site , which will end later being “represented” in the poem. The topic of the trip -which offers, among other advantages, the dazed, confused look of the stranger- serves as the elan vital for the author to examine/ review/ sentence beaches, towns, coasts, cities seen: Alamar, the Mariel, Matanzas, Guanajay, Mayabeque, San Juan, Yumurí or Ciudad Libertad. (Javier L. Mora)

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