From ‘My Last Trip in a Lada’
Chapter from the novel ‘My Last Trip in a Lada’.
Efraín Rodríguez Santana
Cuba, 1953. Poet, narrator. Bachelor's degree in Hispanic Language and Literature, University of Havana, 1979. Gastón Baquero Poetry Prize for ‘Otro día va a comenzar’ (Verbum, Madrid, 2000). Has published, among others, ‘Un país de agua’ (Rafael Alberti Centenary Poetry Prize, 2002), ‘Máquina final’ (Lumme Editor, São Paulo, 2009), ‘Una cabeza patea un pie’ (Ediciones Matanza, 2020). He is the author of the novels ‘La mujer sentada’ (Editorial Letras Cubanas, 2002), ‘La cinta métrica’ (Espuela de Plata, 2011, Lumme Editor, 2012, and Ediciones Unión, 2015), and ‘Mi último viaje en Lada’ (Editorial Casa Vacía, 2025).
