Uva de Aragón

Uva de Aragón (born 1944) is a Cuban American author and scholar. She has published poems, essays, newspaper columns, short stories, novels, and a play. Her first novel, Memories of Silence/Memoria del Silencio, won second place Best Historical Novel – Spanish or Bilingual at the 2016 International Latino Book Awards.

Early life and education De Aragón was born in Havana, Cuba in 1944. She comes from a family of Spanish and Cuban writers. In 1959, de Aragón went into exile in the United States with her family. She then lived in Washington, D.C., New York, and Maryland before settling in Miami in 1978.

She studied at Biscayne College and earned a doctorate in Latin American and Spanish Literature from the University of Miami.

Career de Aragón began publishing in US newspapers in the 1960s. She was a columnist for Diario Las Americas and later El Nuevo Herald. Her work as a journalist has continued through the present day. From 1987 through June 2011, de Aragón was a professor and Associate Director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University. She also served as the Associate Editor of the academic journal Cuban Studies. 2016 International Latino Book Awards – Second place Best Novel - Historical Fiction – Spanish or Bilingual - The Memory of Silence 2021 Florida Book Awards – Spanish Language – Bronze: El reino de la infancia — Memorias de mi vida en Cuba