2024-02-15 03:46:59
Photo: Yoss José Miguel Sánchez | Facebook
Text: Editorial Cuba Noticias 360
The Russian fiction writer Anna Starobinets has visited Havana where she was seen sharing with José Miguel Sánchez, known as Yoss, who shares a literary genre with the artist.
From his Facebook profile, the island writer showed some of the moments he shared with Starobinets:
“With Anna Starobinets, Russian fantasy writer, visiting Havana, in the lobby of the Hotel Ambos Mundos, where Hemingway lived,” Yoss wrote.
Along with an image of the two in the lobby of the emblematic hotel, the narrator added that “then we went to the El Chanchullero bar…where Hemingway had never been, to talk about Cuba and Russia.”
With a very peculiar style that goes beyond literature, Yoss has managed to position himself for many years as one of the most relevant writers of the genre on the island.
“With a very rocker appearance, all in black, with well-kept hair and an athletic build, he radiates energy and some defiance. But don’t be fooled by appearances. It is Yoss, a graduate in Biological Sciences from the University of Havana, who has become one of the greatest representatives of Hispanic science fiction literature,” is how the Russian magazine Sputnik describes him.
The artist has numerous national and international awards, among which the Spanish Universidad Carlos III awards for science fiction (2002), the Domingo Santos Prize for science fiction short stories (2005) and the UPC prize for science fiction (2010) stand out.
In addition, his work includes more than fifteen novels published inside and outside Cuba. His latest work, “Left Thread Nut”, is set in the popular fictional world ‘Metro 2033’, although as the author himself told the aforementioned media “it takes place in a city that does not have a subway.”
On the island, Yoss is one of those ‘rara avis’ writers by harvesting a genre that, although it was highly cultivated during ‘the plenitude’ of Cuba-Russia relations, has subsequently not been one of the most blessed by creators and readers.
For her part, Anna Starobinets is one of the most prominent authors of the new generation of Russian fantasy fiction writers. To her credit she has various books for boys, girls and teenagers.
Starobinets has a degree in Philology from Moscow State University and currently works as a journalist after having worked as a critic, reporter and editor in some of the most important Russian newspapers.
At only 26 years old, he published his first book, “A Difficult Age” (Nevsky Prospects, 2012), which was followed by “El Vivo” (Nevsky Prospects, 2012), a text with which he won the Utopiales European Award and the Ukrainian International Assembly distinction. of Sci-fi.
Among her most prestigious awards, the artist has the National Bestseller Prize of Russia with “The Icarus Gland: The Book of Metamorphoses” (Nevsky Prospects, 2014), and in 2021 she was awarded the Book of the Year awarded by the British newspaper The Observer thanks to “Gatlándia” (Dolmen).
That same year, Editorial Impedimenta published in Spanish “You have to look”, a novel in which it narrates, as a confession, the loss of a son and the terror caused by the pilgrimage through Russian health institutions. As the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, Starobinets went to Georgia.