Manuel Quintero Pérez

Manuel Quintero Pérez (Santa Clara, Cuba, 1951) graduated as an electrical engineer from the Universidad Central de Las Villas (1973) and as a social communicator from the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana de Quito, Ecuador (1998). He has worked in international organizations since 1979, with residence in Mexico, Ecuador and Switzerland. He has published essays on communication issues: El Papa en Cuba: la lectura (des)interesada de la prensa (CLAI, Quito, 1998), El derecho a la información veraz (CLAI, Quito, 2002) and ¿Tribunas de la verdad? El Telégrafo en la crisis bancaria de 1999 (Oveja Perdida, Quito, 2005). He is co-author with Carlos Sintado of two biographies Emilio Castro: passion and commitment to the Kingdom of God (Kairos, Buenos Aires, 2007) - English version: Emilio Castro: A Legacy of Passionate Ecumenism (WCC, Geneva, 2018) - and Alborada de Esperanza. Vida y Testimonio de un Profeta Latinoamericano (CLAI, Quito, 2012). He has published short stories: Un suizo de Appenzell en La Habana (Guantanamera, 2019) and El extraño caso de un pilongo en Pekín (Círculo Rojo, 2020), among others. And the novel La plaga en el valle del Belanús (Editorial Primigenios, Miami, 2021). His stories have appeared in Isliada, a portal dedicated to the promotion of Cuban literature. He won the 2018 Fantoche crime novel award with La chica del lunar (Nitro-Press, Mexico, 2019). Other crime novels of his are Los santos no marchan en Nueva Orleans (Avant Editorial, 2021) and Carnaval Infantil (Editorial Capiro, Santa Clara, 2021).