Culture

Chucho Valdes, Alex Cuba and Edesio Alejandro are the three Cuban artists nominated for Grammy Awards to be announced at the gala ceremony on Sunday, February 13 in Los Angeles, California.

Uruguayan writer living in Cuba Daniel Chavarría received the 2010 National Literature Prize at the International Book Fair of Cuba, being held in this capital. Chavarría, 77, is “one of those beings born to make others happy, because although I am convinced that Chavarría will perhaps not be the greatest of Cuban novelists, he is the most congenial of all,” writer Eduardo Heras León affirmed.

The New York Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors awarded Cuban playwright Nicolás Dorr the annual HOLA Prize to the best premiered text in 2010 for the play Confesiones en el barrio chino, which was also given a prize by the New York Association of Variety Show Journalists, according to sources close to the author.

Here is the cultural calendar for February 2011 put out by the Cuba Absolutely website. It includes happenings in music, dance, theater and the visual arts, etc. in the Cuban capital.

Cuba will present some 500 titles at the upcoming International Book Fair that starts on February 10, the event’s Organizing Committee announced. On this occasion it is expected that some 200 guest personalities will attend, among them Nobel Peace Prize Rigoberta Menchú.