Authors
Aida
BAHR
Holguín, 1958
Genre: Narrative , Essays , Translations
Narrator and essayist. Her name appears in all the critic studies about the Cuban Narrative in the eighties. Author of the storybooks: Out of the limit (1983), There is a cat in the window (1989), Those women at night (1989 / 1994), Mirages (1998) and Ofelias (2007). Also she has published Rafael Soler: A look to the man (essay, 1995) and José Soler Puig: The narrator (2006); the novels The voices and the echoes (2004/2006) and At my mercy (2009). Her works have been translated into English and Russian, and some of them appear in anthologies or selections of Cuban contemporary narrative, both inside and outside the island.
AWARDS/
2006 Alejo Carpentier Short Story Award for Ofelias
2007 Literary Critics Award for Ofelias
Seven stories, seven women that could be one, because these volume of tales scan the desires, dissatisfactions, joys and conflicts of the badly called «weak sex». A book that invites to reflection and the search of solutions, its pages proves how much the author knows about the realities faced by women at any society.