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Daína Chaviano (Author)

Interviews

Echoes of a Past that Refuses to Die

Author: Manuel Fernández y Michael Trimberger

Source: Caribe Magazine (University of North Florida)

One of the most comprehensive interviews made to Daína Chaviano about her childhood, her ideas about eroticism, the events that inspired some of her works, her spiritual beliefs, and other details of her personal life: "[Manuel] Moreno Fraginals was part of my family. At that time, his older son was married to my sister. What's more, our families lived on the same street, almost across from each other. We only needed to cross from one sidewalk to another to visit each other. He would frequently sit to talk with my parents on the front porch of my house. Those conversations between a historian, an economist (my father) and a psychologist (my mother) were experiences that I didn't dare miss..." (Complete text in PDF).