On October 9, while offering a lecture at the University of California (UC), USA, the Cuban writer received the news of the Barcino Historic Novel International Award, granted by the City Council of Barcelona, ​​Spain. Padura received the news published in the most important media in Spain, while he was at the University of California (UC), in Irvine, invited by the UC-CUBA Academic Initiative consortium, led by a group of faculty members and students graduates in the system of nine universities in California, who carry out multidisciplinary research on Cuba.

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