C U L T U R E

• No surrender, no coercion
April.12.10
"Here nobody surrenders…," the historic words of Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida Bosque gave the appropriate note to the Concert for the Homeland in Havana’s José Martí Anti-Imperialist Tribunal.
- A great country and a shoddy El País

• Prominent intellectuals and artists in defense of Cuba
March.26.10
THE media campaign recently unleashed against Cuba has been met with a forceful response from prominent intellectuals and artists, who are calling for respect for the island’s sovereignty and a commitment to the strict truth surrounding events that have been manipulated and distorted by those – one example being European Parliament MPs – who are trying to revert Cuba’s history.

• Statement from UNEAC and the AHS: To the intellectuals and artists of the world
March.17.10
WHILE the Book Fair was taking place from one end of our country to the other and hundreds of Cuban doctors were saving lives in Haiti, a new campaign against Cuba was being cooked up. A common criminal with a proven history of violence, who had become a “political prisoner,” announced that he was undertaking a hunger strike for the installation of a telephone...

• Book Fair closes in La Cabaña
February.22.10
ON Sunday, the 19th International Book Fair celebrated its closing event in the Morro-Cabaña Fortress, in the confidence that the successful book fiesta is to move on to 15 other cities in the country.

• Nadine Gordimer, Nobel laureate, fighting for the five
Such cruelty is unacceptable
February.18.10
SOUTH African Nadine Gordimer, 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, read out letter to President Obama calling for the release of the five Cuban heroes. Gordimer is in our country as an invited guest to the 19th Havana Book Fair.

• Testimonies for truth and justice
February.15.10
THE titles Les debo verlos libres and Estados Unidos vs Cinco Héroes, by Celia Hart Santamaría and Rodolfo Dávalos Fernández, respectively, launched yesterday at the 19th Havana Book Fair, have to be seen as testimonies to justice and truth. Ricardo Alarcón, president of the National Assembly of People's Power, commented on the two books before a public that filled La Cabaña’s...

• The 2010 Havana Book Fair, expression of a socialist society
February.12.10
PRESIDENT Raúl Castro Ruz inaugurated the XIX International Book Fair at the La Cabaña Fortress, east of the capital, on Thursday night.
The publication of approximately 1,000 titles and the availability of seven million copies at the 19th International Book Fair is explained by the priority that a socialist revolution gives to culture in a country blockaded by imperialism for 50 years.

• Nadine Gordimr, Nobel laureate in Literature,
to attend Book Fair
February.2.10
SOUTH African writer Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Literature Prize, is to travel to Havana to participate in the 19th International Book Fair, which opens on February 11 in the Cuban capital. She is to launch a Spanish-language edition of her novel A Sport of Nature published by Cuba’s Editorial Arte y Literatura.