The majority of her books were only published at home after she received Spain's 1992 Cervantes Prize, the highest literary honor in the Spanish language.
Meanwhile equally talented but less well-known writers may be published at home, but have to make do with the local market.
Those conversations led to a retooling of the local workshops, which were extended to include partnering local photographers with internationally known mentors for six months and helping to get their work published at home and abroad.
At the Embassy, Padura was joined by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, the author of the "Dirty Havana Trilogy," a lurid romp through the city's seamier quarters; he is admired in Europe and Latin America as "Cuba's Bukowski," but is rarely published at home.
As a defense reporter, Pfeffer understood why a threat to the peace treaty with Egypt would cause high anxiety in the military command in Israel, yet he also saw that what was being broadcast and published at home did not reflect the reality in Tahrir Square.
Since the late 1960s, his satirical drawings and caricatures of political figures have been widely published at home and abroad, won international awards and been banned in several countries whose leaders have found themselves at the sharp end of his pen.
