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Cienfuegos Book Fair honors local writer Magalys de las Mercedes Ojeda Pozo

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  • The Cienfuegos Book Fair is honoring writer Magalys de las Mercedes Ojeda Pozo, who has worked in literature since 1975.
  • The program includes professional sessions, children's activities, poetry readings, book promotions and events involving young local writers.
  • Organizers are taking activities to public spaces, a children's home and the provincial pediatric hospital despite a difficult economic context.

Cienfuegos is honoring writer Magalys de las Mercedes Ojeda Pozo at the city's Book Fair, which runs from August 28 to 30. Ojeda Pozo has been active in literature since 1975 and has published six books through Cuban and Argentine publishers.

Her works include “By the Edge of the Coin,” “Fleeting Birds,” “Stopping Time,” “Private Chronicles” and “Naked,” published by the provincial Ediciones Mecenas imprint, as well as “Grateful,” released by Argentina's Laia publishing house. She has won prizes in the Batalla de Mal Tiempo and Zenón Rodríguez competitions and at national literary workshop gatherings. Her work has also appeared in Creación magazine and provincial literary bulletins.

Ojeda Pozo holds a degree in education and works as a specialist in the Cumanayagua municipal culture department. She returned to work after three decades in teaching. Under her leadership, the Habarimao Culture House was recognized as the best in Cuba in 2019, and she received the award for best director.

The fair's professional program is taking place at the Roberto García Valdés Provincial Library, including the history session “Postcards in Sepia.” The A Cuestas theater is hosting the children's pavilion “Paper Treasure,” while the Ateneo Dionisio San Román bookstore is holding poetry readings and reading-promotion activities. The Reina del Mar Editores hall will present young local writers.

Street-literature initiatives, including Pedales de Papel, La Tendedera Literaria, Colgados para leer and Poesía contra el tránsito, are unfolding along the Paseo del Prado, the Boulevard and Martí Park. The Monte de Espuma project is extending the festival to a home for children without parental care and the provincial pediatric hospital. The event is continuing its cultural program in Cienfuegos amid a difficult economic situation.

The literary fair in Cienfuegos, as throughout the country, is an expression of cultural resilience and the continuity of the country's intellectual work.

· Rolando Martínez VarensThe communicator for the Florentino Morales Center for Literary Promotion and Research described the fair's significance.
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