Havana is a Really Big City And Other Short Stories
Mirta Yanez is a writer, journalist, and formerly a professor of Latin American literature at the University of la Habana in Cuba.She also has edited numerous collections of short stories, poetry, and critical essays, most notably the 1996Estatuas de sal: Cuentistas cubanas contemporaneas, also published in English translation asCubana, which is the first collectionpublished in Cuba to include stories by women writers still in Cuba and in exile. Her newest collections,Album de poetisas cubanas, Cuentistas cubanas contempora¡neas(Argentina), andCubanas a capatuloare also now out.Principle areas of critical investigation include Romanticism in Hispanoamamerica, Literatura prehispa¡nica, Poesia romantica del siglo XIX hispanoamericano, Poesia cubana escrita por mujeres, Desarrollo historico y estatico del cuento en America Latina (esp. Cuba), and Narradoras cubanas y el discurso femenino en Cuba. On these topics Yanez has published more than 70 articles in Cuba and abroad, as well as a critical anthology entitledEl romanticiscmo hispanoamericano.Her creative works include various collections of poems, essays, short stories, children's stories, and the stylistically innovative and politically allegorical novelsLa hora de los mameyesandSangra por la herida. Her works have also appeared in dozens of anthologies.Yanez has received twice the prestigious Premio de la Cri­tica (1988, 1990) as well as the Premio de ensayo from the Concurso FMC (1990), the Premio de poesia 13 de Marzo (1970), the Premio de narrativa Edad de Oro (1977), and the Premio de cuento Editorial Abril (1988). Her work has been discussed in over 50 reviews, articles, and interviews. She has visited as a research fellow at the Universite de Poitiers and as a professor at the Colegio de Mexico. In addition, Yanez has participated in conferences in Cuba, Nicaragua, Panama, France, England, Germany, Curasao, Argentina, the Republica Dominicana, Puerto Rico, and the United States.