Leonardo Padura Fuentes

Leonardo Padura Fuentes
Born	Leonardo de la Caridad Padura Fuentes (1955-10-10) 10 October 1955 (age 68) Havana, Cuba
Occupation	Novelist, journalist
Language	Spanish
Nationality	Cuban
Citizenship	Cuban Spanish
Alma mater	University of Havana
Period	1983–present
Genre	Crime fiction, journalism
Notable works	Fiebre de caballos Adiós, Hemingway El hombre que amaba a los perros (The Man Who Loved Dogs)

Leonardo de la Caridad Padura Fuentes (born October 10, 1955) is a Cuban novelist and journalist. As of 2007^[update], he is one of Cuba's best-known writers internationally. In his native Spanish, as well as in English and some other languages, he is often referred to by the shorter form of his name, Leonardo Padura. He has written screenplays, two books of short stories, and a series of detective novels translated into 10 languages. In 2012, Padura was awarded the National Prize for Literature, Cuba's national literary award and the most important award of its kind. In 2015, he was awarded the Premio Principe de Asturias de las Letras of Spain, one of the most important literary prizes in the Spanish-speaking world and usually considered as the Iberoamerican Nobel Prize.^[1]