Cuban-American writer of French and Asturian descent
Daina Chaviano (born in Havana, Cuba, in 1957) is a Cuban-American writer of French and Asturian descent living in the United States since 1991.
She is considered one of the three most important female fantasy and science fiction writers in the Spanish language, along with Angélica Gorodischer (Argentina) and Elia Barceló (Spain), forming the so-called “feminine trinity of science fiction in Ibero-America.”
In Cuba, she published several science fiction and fantasy books, becoming the most renowned and best-selling author in those genres in Cuban literature. Since leaving the island, she has distinguished herself with a series of novels incorporating historical and more contemporary matters as well as mythological and fantastic elements.
The first kiss can be as terrifying as the last.