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"In 1994, Mylene Fernández Pintado (Pinar del Rio, 1963) obtained a mention in the contest of stories of the Gazette of Cuba, of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, by its first text, Anhedonia, the same that later gave title to the book that won the 1998 David de Cuento Prize.

With this volume, the young writer quickly became one of the most well-known Cuban narrators of the last decade, not only because of the topics discussed but also because of an unusual narrative ability in novice writers. Anhedonia takes as protagonist the figure of the Cuban woman in different stages of her life and faced with different situations. With admirable ease and smoothness, the author presents the conflicts of her characters in stories where humor, intertextuality, where culture and popular unite to make each of them stories of particular literary and human value, because these stories deeply deal with the most serious and current issues. "Caridad Tamayo. Lectora, 5-6 (1999-2000). 

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