Eladia González

I was born in Cuba in 1940. My earliest years were spent in Havana. On several occasions, while I was still a young girl, my family and I sailed across the sea between Cuba and Mexico. Those journeys opened up my horizons and enabled me to discover the country were we finally settled when I was five.

Even when I was that young, I used to watch people´s ways of talking, of eating, of dressing and committed them to memory, and I carefully followed adult conversations: stories of love and of loss and tales of terror and of adventure stoked my imagination and awoke in me my vocation toward writing.

My deepest Mexican roots can be found in San Miguel de Allende. The stories that I now set down on paper were born in my grandparents' old house...El misterio de las damas chinas (2000 CANIEM Award for Publishing, children's books category) is one of these.