Leonardo Padura Fuentes

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Padura and the second or maternal family name is Fuentes.
Leonardo Padura Fuentes
BornLeonardo de la Caridad Padura Fuentes
(1955-10-10) 10 October 1955 (age 69)
Havana, Cuba
OccupationNovelist, journalist
LanguageSpanish
Citizenship
Alma materUniversity of Havana
Period1983–present
GenreCrime fiction, journalism
Notable works

Leonardo de la Caridad Padura Fuentes (born October 10, 1955) is a Cuban novelist and journalist. As of 2007, he is one of Cuba's best-known writers internationally. In his native Spanish, as well as in English and some other languages, he is often referred to by the shorter form of his name, Leonardo Padura. He has written screenplays, two books of short stories, and a series of detective novels translated into 10 languages. In 2012, Padura was awarded the National Prize for Literature, Cuba's national literary award and the most important award of its kind. In 2015, he was awarded the Premio Principe de Asturias de las Letras of Spain, one of the most important literary prizes in the Spanish-speaking world and usually considered as the Iberoamerican Nobel Prize.[1]

  1. ^ Staff writer (December 19, 2012). "Cuba's National Literature Prize Awarded to Leonardo Padura". Havana Times. Retrieved December 20, 2012.