Rialta reports that Cuban author Daína Chaviano will receive the 2026 Sheridan Le Fanu Award today (Saturday, November 14, 2026, at 7:15pm, at the at the Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation Auditorium) in Madrid, Spain, alongside Russian author Anna Starobinets and Spanish author Sofía Rhei.
Cuban writer Daína Chaviano—a foundational voice in Spanish-language fantastic literature—will receive the 2026 Sheridan Le Fanu Award this Saturday, November 14, in Madrid, during the eighteenth edition of the Sui Generis Madrid Festival.
The award, which honors contributions to fantastic and horror literature, is being presented this year to three writers: Chaviano, Russian author Anna Starobinets, and Spanish author Sofía Rhei.
The ceremony will take place at 7:15 PM at the Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation Auditorium, located at Matadero Madrid. Admission is free, according to the festival organizers.
“This year, the Sheridan Le Fanu [Award] travels to three different homes. Two of these authors write in Spanish, and one in Russian; together, they span the Caribbean, Spain, and a Russia from which one of them had to depart. What they share pulses beneath the surface: an urge to examine what unsettles us and transform it into significant literature.” This is how the festival itself described the significance of the recognition. Chaviano, born in Havana in 1957 and a resident of Miami since 1991, is—along with the Argentine writer Angélica Gorodischer (1928–2022) and the Spaniard Elia Barceló (1957)—part of what is known as the “female trinity of Spanish-language science fiction,” a widely recognized classification that is, for instance, also adopted by the Centro Virtual Cervantes.
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Rialta reports that Cuban author Daína Chaviano will receive the 2026 Sheridan Le Fanu Award today (Saturday, November 14, 2026, at 7:15pm, at the at the Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation Auditorium) in Madrid, Spain, alongside Russian author Anna Starobinets and Spanish author Sofía Rhei. Cuban writer Daína Chaviano—a foundational voice in Spanish-language fantastic literature—will receive