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Armando Lucas Correa

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Born
in Guantanamo, Cuba
October 18

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Armando Lucas Correa is a Cuban writer.

Correa is the recipient of various outstanding achievement awards from the National Association of Hispanic Publications and the Society of Professional Journalism. Recently, he was awarded with the Cintas Foundation Fellowship in Creative Writing.

His book En busca de Emma (In Search of Emma: Two Fathers, One Daughter and the Dream of a Family) was published by Rayo, Harper Collins in 2007 and for Aguilar, Santillana (Mexico) in 2009. It will be available in English (In Search of Emma) by Harper One, October 12th, 2021.

His first novel The German Girl/La niña alemana was published in October, 2016, in English and Spanish by Atria Books, a division of Simon and Schuster. The German Girl is an internatio ...more

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I just wanted you to know that I really liked The Daughter's Tale. What a sad period of our history. Thank you for bringing this story to the attention of the world. Oh, it won't let me leave a comment unless I have a question mark. I'd like to know more about the research involved in putting the story together?
Armando Lucas Correa I grew up with the story of the Saint Louis, from the time I was a young boy, though it was a forbidden topic in Cuba. My grandmother, the daughter of…moreI grew up with the story of the Saint Louis, from the time I was a young boy, though it was a forbidden topic in Cuba. My grandmother, the daughter of Spanish immigrants, was shocked when Cuba refused entry to the Jewish refuges onboard the Saint Louis. I too am a product of exile, I’m an immigrant as well. I came to the U.S., leaving my family behind, leaving my books. When you’re exiled, you try to set down roots, but you always live —consciously or not— with the fear of loss. I’ve always been interested in historical events, mainly from WW II, which show human vileness and are forgotten in time. They cannot be forgotten. I’m afraid of forgetting. Doing research for The German Girl I found postcards from Oradour-Sur-Glane. I looked for documents, read many books about the massacre in Oradour. I saw the before and after images of the town but when I visited and spent the day among the ruins I was crushed by their dimension. It was city, not a couple of buildings and a church. When you go there, you see the impact of the crime is so much greater. Then, there’s the cemetery where you find the graves of all the people who perished. Entire families.(less)
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I just read The Night Travelers, and I was so moved. It is so difficult to read about the atrocities committed against the innocent, but I loved the strength in your characters and how these women were so connected. Thank you for your wonderful book. I was wondering why Lilith and the Herzogs were allowed off the ship when they arrived in Cuba. Presumably they were on the St. Louis. Why were they not turned away?
Armando Lucas Correa Jackie L, very grateful that you read The Night Travelers. Thank you for your kind words. Yes, Lilith and the Herzogs were on the MS St. Louis, it is …moreJackie L, very grateful that you read The Night Travelers. Thank you for your kind words. Yes, Lilith and the Herzogs were on the MS St. Louis, it is a sort of leitmotif in my three historical novels, The German Girl, The Daughter's Tale and The Night Travelers. Of the 937 passengers on the St. Louis, only 28 passengers were able to disembark in Havana and I include, among them, Lilith and the Herozogs. Those 28 passengers were able to disembark for several reasons, either they paid the $500 per passenger required by the Cuban government or they obtained permission to disembark, not from the immigration authorities, but from the Cuban labor department. In my novel The German Girl, I center the story on the St. Louis. In my other novels it is a simple reference. Thank you,
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The day my children Anna and Lucas turned seven, I started writing Lilith's story. The
number seven became a very real obsession. I remember a sentence that floated over a blank page for several days about Ally, Lilith's mother: “She wanted the days to stand still, for Lilith not to grow, for them never to celebrate birthday number seven. If only we could stop time, she thought.” It wa Read more of this blog post »
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“Take a good look at them, Mama. We were a wretched mass of fleeing people who had been kicked out of our homes. In just a few seconds, we had become immigrants, something she never wanted to accept. She had to face reality now. Suddenly”
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“She knew well that no matter how the author fashions his characters, no matter which words he chooses, it is always the reader who holds the power of interpretation.”
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“We lived on illusions and woke up far too late.”
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“By night, we’re all the same color.”
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“The night belongs to us, to me and you. The night is ours.”
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“In times of peace, the nights seemed endless.”
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“From this dark, cold place, I can hear your heart. I know from memory all its movements. When you are asleep or awake, happy or sad, like today."
"My Amanda, I want you never to forget that we were happy once."
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