Presentation of the Novel “Negro en la Costa” by María Elena Hernández
On Saturday, June 7, 2025, at 8:30 p.m., the presentation of the new novel by Cuban-American writer María Elena Hernández, entitled “Negro en la Costa,” published by Ediciones Furtivas, will take place. The event is organized by the Artefactus Cultural Project and the Cuatrogatos Foundation, in collaboration with Furtivas. At the event, the author will be accompanied by narrator and critic María Cristina Fernández.
The book features a real-life character, Cuban writer and intellectual Walterio Carbonell, who was banished from the island’s cultural circles for his sustained denunciation of the racism present in Cuba after January 1, 1959.