Eliades Acosta

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Eliades Acosta Matos (born January 4, 1959, in Santiago de Cuba) is a Cuban politician and writer. He was director of Cuba’s Jose Marti National Library from 1997 to 2007 and, until 2003, headed the Culture Committee of the Cuban Communist Party’s Central Committee. He writes political and historical books, articles, essays, and has published three novels. Since 2010 he has lived in the Dominican Republic, working with the National Archive and the Juan Bosch Foundation. In 2012 he received the International Prix Pedro Henriquez Ureña from the Ateneo Dominicano, and in 2016 he won the Prix Caonabo de Oro as the best foreign writer in the Dominican Republic that year.