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Yannis Lobaina

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Yannis Lobaina is an award-winning Cuban artist, writer, producer, community arts facilitator, emerging filmmaker, and photographer based in Toronto. Yannis loves to explore themes of immigration, diaspora, language and motherhood through various storytelling tools.

Lobaina has published more than 30 short fiction stories worldwide. Also produced over 40 short fiction and documentaries in Cuba. As a photographer, she currently focuses on minimalist photographic storytelling, landscapes, patterns and pareidolias in nature.

Lobaina believes the arts as a powering tool for social change and peace-making. She developed bilingual ( Spanish-English ) creative writing art programs for children.

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Yannis Lobaina Read Yannis' story in Tint Journal's Fall '20 issue as well as a brief Q&A with her at www.tintjournal.com! Yannis Lobaina reads "Canadiana Boots"
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Yannis Lobaina During ten days, I shared some books on my FB. Authors that have marked my reading and vision as a writer. It is always fascinating to share those unique and essential readings or books with other readers like me. Reading for me was still an excellent refuge and an infinite source of wisdom.

Have you read any of these authors?

In this video, https://youtu.be/zpAE4O9ely8

I show you these 10 authors that I recommend with great confidence. I know you will enjoy them as much as I do. As I am a very voracious reader and an inveterate bibliophile, I had many authors left unmentioned, so I will continue to share my readings with you frequently. Hugs,

More in my blog. https://enlareddeltiempo.com/2021/01/...
La Chute by Albert Camus
Violet Island and Other Poems by Reina María Rodríguez


Yannis Lobaina My short story Juana de León, that's me, is part of this wonderful anthology of Cuban writers. The Oval Portrait: Contemporary Cuban Women Writers and Artists. The Oval Portrait was originally published as El retrato ovalado (Ediciones Union, Havana, Cuba, 2015). Editor Soleida Ríos set a difficult task for herself and nearly three dozen other Cuban women writers, artists, and thinkers. She asked each to "choose a mask. With it, she spins her story so that her own image appears in the story as well as the connection (always mysterious) and the symbol with which she has chosen to represent herself." Beyond being a postmodernist tour de force, the result was "a perfect vehicle for introspection." As Ríos herself puts it: "The game requires us to go deep... Shall we say: Rather than a portrait, construct a mirror, through which you may touch the difficult and shared places. And then, in the end, ask yourself the question: Which are your favourite lies?"


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