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The Latinidad 2008 Prize was given to the important intellectual and movie maker Alfredo Guevara, founder of the Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (Cuban Institute for the Arts and Movie Industry) (ICAIC in Spanish), for his decisive contribution to national culture which has meant his promotion to development and diffusion of Latin American and Caribbean cinema.

The exhibition "Palabra y pincel" -Word and Brush-, opportune dialogue among Literature and Fine arts in the work of 12 of the most prolific painters of the country, will be inaugurated May 16 at National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba.

Cuban ambassador to the Dominican Republic Juan Astiasarán termed as successful the 3rd Traveling Cuban Book Fair, which concluded in the city of Barahona, the last leg of a tour of five Dominican provinces.

The National Fine Arts Museum presents a retrospective of the pictorial work of one of the best Cuban poets of all time. I’m talking about Un Sol Desconocido: Samuel Feijoo, which was inaugurated on April 25.

The 3rd Traveling Cuban Book Fair is on a tour of five cities in the Dominican Republic, attracting people to various parks, where tents with books are set up.

The deadline for the national competition La Llama Doble 2008 (The Double Flame) will close this month, the event promotes the literary creation in short story and is announced by the Provincial Center of the Book and the Literature and the Center of Promotion and Development of the Literature Pablo Armando Fernández, in this eastern province of Las Tunas.

The cultural magazine Lettres from Cuba is already on line with the fifth number of the current year and, as always, we pinpoint some of the cultural events of greater importance of the current month in our country.

The first book he commented on in front of a large crowd was Six Exemplary Playwrights, considered a didactic work as a result of his years dedicated to teaching theater.

"Today, I don´t want to be away from home and the tree:"Silvio Rodríguez It would be no exaggeration to say that the Casa de las Americas cultural institution, which is celebrating its 49th anniversary these days, is considered home by those who work there.

As a way to break media silence, the work "Desde la soledad y la esperanza," was launched in the 34th International Book Fair running in this capital, dedicated to five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in United States.

The novel En el cielo con diamantes (In the sky with diamonds), by the Cuban writer Senel Paz, achieved the Literary Creation Award from the Casa de América Latina in Lisbon, according to sources from the organizing committee of the event.

For a personality rather given to the inner spaces, to the calm life, to the fruitful intimacy, the whole noise and lights that inevitably carry such anniversary will represent a banishment perhaps, an accident, because Fina has always preferred silence and the soft semidarkness.

“Cuba´s ever growing presence on the World Wide Web (Internet) offers the island the possibility of articulating efficient ways of spreading the truth about Cuba, as well as the island’s views on world events,” said Cuban journalist Nirma Acosta in Argentina, where she is attending the 34th Buenos Aires International Book Fair.

The Cuban journalist Luis Báez (image) presented his work El mérito es estar vivo (The merit is being alive) in the 34th edition of the International Book Festival from Buenos Aires, which is going through its second edition.

During her stay in Galicia, writer Nancy Morejon will deliver different lectures at the Rosalia de Castro Foundation and in other scenarios of that region about the essential bounds of the Cuban and Caribbean letters with the Hispanic cultural patrimony, as substantiated by her studies on Nicolas Guillen’s work.