AHMEL ECHEVARRÍA

Ahmel Echevarría  (Havana, 1974). Cuban narrator. He has published the books Inventario (David Award 2004, short story, Ediciones Unión, 2007), Esquirlas (Pinos Nuevos Award 2005, novel, Letras Cubanas, 2006), Días de entrenamiento (Franz Kafka Award for Gaveta Novels, 2010), Búfalos camino al matadero (José Soler Puig Award 2012, novel, Oriente Publishing House, 2013), La noria (Ítalo Calvino Novel Award, 2012, Ediciones Unión, 2013; Cuban Literary Critics' Prize 2013), Insomnio -the fight club- (short stories, Letras Cubanas, 2015), and Caballo con arzones (Alejo Carpentier Novel Prize 2017, Letras Cubanas, 2017; 2017 Literary Critics' Prize).