Jorge Olivera Castillo

Jorge Olivera Castillo (b. Havana, Cuba, 1961) is a Cuban poet and dissident.

He worked as a journalist for the Cuban state-run television station ICRT for 10 years. He was briefly detained in 1992 for trying to leave the country on a raft; With two other journalists, he founded an independent news agency, Havana Press, in 1995, and later became the director. In prison, he spent nine months in solitary confinement, and suffered from a range of health problems. he was released for health reasons after serving only 18 months of his sentence, but remained under close supervision.

Works

Poetry

Confesiones antes del crepúsculo. Miami: Ed. Proyecto de Bibliotecas Independientes, 2005. En cuerpo y alma. Ed. Olgy and Olega Krylovových. Prague: PEN Czech Republic, 2008. (Spanish and Czech) , 2010. (Spanish and French) Sobrevivir en la boca del lobo. Madrid: Editorial Hispano Cubana, 2012. . Cenizas alumbradas. Warsaw: Lech Walesa Foundation, 2010. (Spanish and Polish) Tatuajes en la memoria. Prague, 2013. Quemar las naves. [Miami]: Neo Club Ediciones, 2015. .

Short stories

Huésped del infierno. Valencia: Editorial Aduana Vieja, 2007. . Antes que amanezca : y otros relatos. Buenos Aires: Fundación Cadal, 2010. .