Three decades after its first edition in Cuba, the Madrid publishing house Huso publishes in Spain what is regarded as a classic in the fantasy genre in Latin America.

On the 17th and 18th, she is invited to the HispaCon festival, held this year in Salamanca, and on the 20th she will take part in a meeting of readers at the ‘La Fabrica de Madrid’ bookstore. Daina Chaviano belongs to a class of writers that do not subscribe to ‘received reality’. In her universe, the reader has to let go of any absolute notions of what is real, in favor of the imagination that weaves it and whose meanings put it into play. It is a kind of literary wager, written to clear the sight. The author affirms it as the starting point of her creative journey – “Purely realistic literature seems far too restrictive a tool for creativity to flourish. It is always limited by very obvious and definitive elements. I prefer subtlety and infinity.” Fábulas de una abuela extraterrestre (Fables of an Extra-terrestrial Grandmother) is one of those works where Chaviano observes reality from a far-from-ordinary angle. You see, in her writing, the normal becomes a heap of interpretations.

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