Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Leonardo Padura Fuentes

Cuban novelist and journalist

Date of Birth: 09-Oct-1955

Place of Birth: Havana, Havana Province, Cuba

Profession: screenwriter, writer, journalist

Nationality: Spain, Cuba

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Leonardo de la Caridad Padura Fuentes (born on October 10th, 1955) is a Cuban novelist and journalist.
As of 2007, he is one of Cuba's best-known writers internationally.
In his native Spanish, as well as in English and some other languages, he is often referred to by the shorter form of his name, Leonardo Padura.
He has written screenplays, two books of short stories, and a series of detective novels translated into 10 languages.
In 2012, Padura was awarded the National Prize for Literature, Cuba's national literary award and the most important award of its kind.
In 2015, he was awarded the Premio Principe de Asturias de las Letras of Spain, one of the most important literary prizes in the Spanish-speaking world and usually considered as the Iberoamerican Nobel Prize.