Fabio Fernandez, who graduated from the University of Havana with a Bachelor’s degree in History, a Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies of Latin America, the Caribbean, and Cuba, and a PhD in Historical Sciences, teaches and directs the Department of Cuban History at the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the capital’s higher education center.

His research, which covers the history of the Cuban Revolution, the university student movement in Cuba, and contemporary historiography of the Caribbean nation, includes books such as The Paths of Prosperity. The Economic Ideology of Cuba’s Creole Oligarchies (1550-1790) and Chronicle of a Collapse: The Collapse of Real Socialism in the Cuban Written Press (1985-1992).

The academic is co-author of Fidel in the University Student Tradition, Mella’s Struggles at the University: A Minimal Anthology, and Fidel and the Cuban Publishing Industry: A Revolution from Literature; his texts appear in anthologies, collective books, and periodical and digital publications both on and off the island.

His research has been recognized with the Enrique Gay Calbo National Prize for Historiographical Criticism (Academy of Cuban History, 2013), the Gloria Garcia Special Prize (Union of Cuban Historians, 2016), and the Cintio Vitier Jose Marti Criticism Prize (Center for Jose Marti Studies, 2017).

Other awards include the Ramiro Guerra Sanchez Historical Criticism Prize (Union of Cuban Historians, 2019 and 2022) and the Cuban Academy of Sciences Prize, 2023.

Born in Havana in 1988, Fabio Fernandez is a member of the Advisory Board of Temas magazine, the Scientific Council of the Institute of Cuban History, and was first vice president of the Union of Cuban Historians.

The sapce Libro a la carta (Book a la Carte) is a monthly space that aims at boosting talks with Cuban writers, whose works enrich contemporary island literature.

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