| 27/12/2020 – 7:18 PM (GMT-4)
Cuban actress Lynn Cruz published her first novel with the title Terminal, presented by Editorial Hypermedia.
“A new title in our collection ‘Under the Radar’ dedicated to the most recent Cuban story,” wrote writer and editor Ladislao Aguado, director of Hypermedia on Facebook.
Aguado also shared an excerpt from the novel stating, “They let me in. Fidel slept in a dimly lit room. Full of needles … devices … artificial respiration. How vulnerable he seemed to me then. He was a body. , a mass of flesh and bones … motionless ”.
The novel is already available on Amazon for the price of $ 17.90 as seen on the online sales platform.
“I’m floating. My novel has finally seen the light. At publishing house Hypermedia, on Amazon. Thanks to all the people who accompanied me on this journey that started in 2012,” the author said on Facebook.
The cover of the book was responsible for the artist Samuel Riera, who publicly thanked Lynn Cruz.
The novel received an Honorable Mention of the Frank Kafka Novel Prize in 2018, although it had not been published so far. On that occasion, the jury stressed that “its quality and strength”, in addition to qualifying as “an excellent political reflection.
Lynn Cruz is known as an actress for feature films No one, a documentary dedicated to the censored Cuban writer Rafael Alcides, ed Blue heart, a feature film, both independently directed by Cuban filmmaker Miguel Coyula.
Lynn Cruz also works as a writer on sites such as Hypermedia Magazine, the magazine of the publisher who published your book, or Havana TimesThe latter cost her in 2018 that she was fired from her official job at the Cuban agency Actuar.
In addition, the actress was very culturally active. In 2018 he also prepared the piece Patriotism 36-77, that was about the issue of censorship in Cuba. Additionally, Cruz is an associate of the Hannah Arendt Institute of Artivism (INSTAR), founded by the artist Tania Bruguera to create a political and social consciousness within the arts.
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