Elaine Vilar Madruga
From 16 March to 13 April 2026

The Cuban novelist, poet, and playwright Elaine Vilar Madruga was born in Havana in 1989. She also works as a journalist and teacher of creative writing. Translated into several languages and hailed by critics internationally, her publications run from juvenilia and collections of short stories and poems, to a dozen novels that include Salomé (La Pollera, 2018), La tiranía de las moscas (Barrett, 2021) and El cielo de la selva (Lava, 2023). Mixing realism and fantasy, and often tinged with horror, her books examine the failings of the contemporary world through a feminist lens. The Tyranny of Flies, translated by Kevin Gerry Dunn, was published by HarperVia in 2024.