Leonardo Padura Fuentes. Havana, 1955. Narrator, film scriptwriter, essayist, journalist. 2016 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature and Cuban National Literature Award. He has published more than twenty books and it is translated into more than twenty languages. He became known internationally with the series of novels starring the researcher Mario Conde that make up the tetralogy "The Four Seasons", already taken to film and television. He is the author of three other novels with the same character and historical novels such as La novela de mi vida, Herejes and El hombre que amaba a los perros, his most widely distributed, awarded and commented book. He has written among others, the books of essays Alejo Carpentier and Los real marvelous, a way of half a century (1994), With the sword and with the pen. Comments on Inca Garcilaso (1984), José María Heredia: La patria y la vida and journalistic anthologies such as The longest trip (1994), The faces of salsa (1997), Memory and forgetfulness (2011) and I would like to be Paul Auster (2014).

In co-authorship, he has written the scripts for films such as Seven days in Havana, Return to Ithaca, and the series “The four seasons of Havana”. He has received, among others, the Cuban Critics Award for the best book of the year (eight times), the Hammett Award (three times), the Café Gijón de Novela Award (1995), the Islands Award and the Carbet (France), in addition to the honorifics for the life work "Raymond Chandler" (Italy) and "Roger Caillois" (France). He has been distinguished with honorary orders in Spain, Italy and France.