Tania Díaz Castro

Tania Díaz Castro (April 30, 1939 – February 4, 2024) was a Cuban journalist, poet, and activist.

Biography Tania Díaz Castro was born in Camajuaní, Villa Clara, in 1939. Her mother was a tobacco worker, and her father was a journalist and activist. She later moved with her family to Havana, where she attended the University of Havana for six months before dropping out, instead choosing to become a self-taught journalist. In 1977 she was expelled from UNEAC. In 1987 she joined the Movimiento de los Derechos Humanos, led by , and became a founding member and secretary-general of the organization's party, the Partido Pro Derechos Humanos, which called for Fidel Castro to announce a plebiscite.

She died in 2024, in Havana, at age 84.

Selected works

1964, Apuntes para el tiempo. Ediciones Revolución 1970, Todos me van ha tener que oír. Ediciones Unión 1990, Everyone will have to listen (bilingual edition). Ediciones Ellas/Linden Lane Press 1996, Flores amarillas cortadas al anochecer. Ediciones Unión 1998, Mientras giran las hojas del arce. Ediciones Unión 2011, Inventar un hombre. ZV Lunáticas 2023, Más libres que los pájaros. Ediciones Deslinde