Ena Lucía Portela

Ena Lucía Portela was born in Havana, 19 December 1972. She graduated from the University of Havana with a degree in Classical Languages and Literature. Part of the generation known as "novísimos", her first story, "La urna y el nombre, un cuento jovial" was included in the anthology, Los últimos serán los primeros. Her first novel, El pájaro: pincel y tinta china, was awarded the Cirilo Villaverde Prize in 1997 by the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba,{{Cite journal|last=Piazza|first=Sarah|date=2016|title=The Writer's Soundtrack in Cien botellas en una pared|url=https://escholarship.org/content/qt6g97j8rh/qt6g97j8rh.pdf?t=pd56ri|journal=Mester|volume=44|pages=73–89|doi=10.5070/M3441037795|via=escholarship.org}} and was published in 1999 by Ediciones Unión, Cuba, and by Casiopea Publishing House, Spain. In 2002, she was awarded the Premio Jaén for One Hundred Bottles.{{cite web|last1=Post|first1=Chad W.|title=Latest Review: "One Hundred Bottles" by Ena Lucia Portela|url=http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/?id=3079|publisher=University of Rochester|access-date=30 December 2016|date=1 February 2011}} Her contemporaries include Anna Lidia Vega Serova and Karla Suárez.{{sfn|Pérez Rosario|2010|p=149}}{{Cite journal|last=Cabrera|first=Raul|date=2 July 2014|title=El Posnacionalismo en la Narrativa Cubana Actual: Reivindicación de lo Privado y lo Homoerótico|url=https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1537/|website=FIU Digital Commons|doi=10.25148/etd.FI14071152 }}

Her book of short stories Una extraña entre las piedras was published by Editorial Letras Cubanas, Cuba, in 1999. In 1999, she was awarded the Juan Rulfo Prize for her short story, El viejo, el asesino y yo,{{Cite journal|last=Araújo|first=Nara|date=2001|title=Erizar y divertir: La poética de Ena Lucía Portela|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24486200|journal=Cuban Studies|volume=32|pages=55–73|jstor=24486200}} which was published by Editorial Letras Cubanas, Cuba, in 2000. Her novel La sombra del caminante was published by Ediciones Unión (Cuba) in 2001, by Editorial Kailas (Spain) in 2006, and then by Bokeh press (The Netherlands) in 2016. Her work has been published in more than twenty countries and has appeared in numerous anthologies,{{Cite web|title=Ena Lucia Portela|url=https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/ena-lucia-portela|access-date=2021-05-11|website=Words Without Borders}} both in Cuba and abroad. In 2007, she was selected by the Bogotá Book Fair as one of the most important thirty-nine Latin American writers under thirty-nine.{{Cite web|title=La Habana Elegante - Entrevista|url=http://www.habanaelegante.com/Fall_Winter_2010/Entrevista_Portela.html|access-date=2021-05-12|website=www.habanaelegante.com}}{{Cite web|last=Estornudo|first=El|date=2018-11-21|title=La libertad de Ena Lucía Portela|url=https://revistaelestornudo.medium.com/la-libertad-de-ena-luc%C3%ADa-portela-b8353ee5dcee|access-date=2021-05-12|website=Medium|language=en}}

:* 1999: El pájaro: pincel y tinta china

:* 1999: Una extraña entre las piedras

:* 2000: El viejo, el asesino y yo

:* 2001: La sombra del caminante

:* 2002: Cien botellas en una pared

:* 2008: Djuna y Daniel

:*2017: Con hambre y sin dinero

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