Abraham Jimenez Enoa

Abraham Jiménez Enoa (born 1988) is a freelance Cuban journalist. He is the co-founder of El Estornudo and was the recipient of the 2022 International Press Freedom Award.

Early life and education

Jiménez Enoa was born in Havana into a revolutionary family, where almost everyone was a member of the Communist Party. He describes his youth as growing up within the "automatism of the Revolution."

Career

He left the MININT in 2016 to found El Estornudo, an independent magazine of narrative journalism. He was sanctioned for leaving the ministry with a regulation that barred him from leaving Cuba for five years. He became an outspoken critic of the regime. He covered taboo topics not otherwise covered, including prostitution, poverty, human rights and racism in Cuba. Jiménez faced increasing harassment because of his writing. His internet was blocked and he and his family were threatened. He was arrested, strip searched, handcuffed and told to stop writing for WAPO. He left El Estornudo in 2020, exhausted and needing to regain his strength. In November, 2021, the government gave him an ultimatum: leave or be jailed. He fled to Spain in 2021 where he lives in exile Jiménez Enoa won the 2023 Michael Jacobs Prize for Travel Writing, telling the story of his first year out of Cuba. On August 28, 2025 he wrote an expose' on how Cuba is adapting to the digital age by surveilling and controlling the internet.

Narrative style His preferred writing style is the contemporary Latin American literary genre crónica which he used in his first book, La Isla Oculta. He described this genre as being in the mold of writers such as Truman Capote and Rodolfo Walsh