Gladys Zaldívar

Gladys Zaldivar, cuban writer and essayist was born in 1936 in Camaguey, Cuba and died in Miami, Florida in October 2008. In 1960 won the "Ruben Martinez Villena" award given by the Union Nacional de Escritores y Artistas Cubanos (UNIAC) to relevant literary figures. A staunch opponent of the Communist regime in Cuba, Dr. Zaldivar went into exile in 1968 in the United States where she earned a degree in Spanish Literature from the University of Maryland and was Professor …