Wendy Guerra

In 2016 Guerra published Domingo de Revolución (Revolution Sunday) in Spain, the story of a Cuban author who publishes a book of poems in Europe and is the object of suspicion by both the Cuban government and Cuban dissidents.

In 2014, she and another Cuban writer, William Navarrete, were prevented from speaking at a literary festival in Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia), by the government of Bolivian President Evo Morales which anticipated they would criticize Bolivia's suppression of free speech.

Later that same year (2014), her novel Posar desnuda en la Habana was published in Cuba, and was presented during the 23rd Havana's International Book Fair.

In 2013, she published Negra in Spain, a first person narrative of racial discrimination in post-Revolutionary Cuban society.

Guerra published her novel Posar desnuda en la Habana (Posing Nude in Havana) in 2012, after conducted research in Havana and Paris and read Nin's unexpurgated diaries. In the novel, extracts from Nin's diaries are interwoven with fictional entries.

She received the Carbet des Lycéens prize (Prix Carbet des lycéens) in 2009. In 2010, France named her a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Guerra's first collection of poems, Platea a oscuras, won her a prize from the University of Havana. She then earned a degree in film, radio and television direction at Havana's Instituto Superior de Arte. She appeared on Cuba's first morning television show, Buenos Días, where she read children's stories. She worked as an actress on Cuban television and in film, but considers her abilities limited, though she found the experience useful as a student of character and interpretation. Her film credits include Hello Hemingway (1990).

Wendy Guerra (born 11 December 1970), formally Wendy Guerra Torres Gomez de Cadiz, is a Cuban poet and novelist. After a brief career acting in Cuban film and television, she turned to writing and won recognition more readily abroad than within Cuba. Her works have been translated into thirteen languages. She has been described as "a kind of diva of contemporary Cuban literature".

Guerra was born on 11 December 1970 in Havana in what she later described as "a small provincial hospital". Her family soon moved to Cienfuegos on Cuba's southern coast. Her mother Albis Torres was an unpublished poet. Her father was Cuban playwright Raúl Guerra, who died alcoholic and begging for alms on the streets. She has a half brother, plastic artist Sandro Guerra García.