BIRKENSTORY #33 | LEONARDO PADURA – A PASSIONATE WRITER FROM CUBA

Leonardo Padura is one of the best-known Hispanic writers in the world. The author of some thirty books, who resides and works in Havana in the house where his father, grandfather and great-grandfather once lived, was awarded the prestigious Princess of Asturias Award in 2015, the first South American author to do so in two decades. His detective novels have been translated into more than 30 languages. Despite his success, this writer, who never leaves his Arizonas when in Cuba, has not achieved his lifelong dream: to become a professional baseball player.