Havana, Cuba- Canadian writer Margaret Atwood´s work is today one of the great attractions in the 26th International Book Fair of Havana, with the participation of authors and publishers from more than 45 countries.
Cuban scholars Nancy Morejon and Pablo Armando Fernandez translated into Spanish a poetic anthology of this icon of contemporary literature, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and winner of the Principe de Asturias Award of Letters (2008).

“We find in her poems a call for the unity in a country, to be Canadians above the differences they may have”, Morejon said to Prensa Latina.
After the Cuban poet, a great respect for the difference defines Atwood, she has the merit of being inclusive and that is important in a multicultural country, where they speak two languages: English and French, and also coexist some indigenous languages.

About the latest includes the vocabulary of the Inuit people, the right original denomination of the various Eskimo peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions. The name Eskimos was imposed by anthropologists in the 19th century.

After Morejon, the Canadian French-speaking world has a very strong Latin American presence with Haitian preponderance in Montreal, for example, and Atwood seemed very responsive in this respect.

“Those who read the poems selected by Fernandez and I will find not only the phenomena of the modern world, also messages against war, for peace and a hymn to Canada as a nation”, Morejon explained.
Canada is the guest of honor of the current literary event developed in the fortress of San Carlos de La Cabaña until February 19, in Havana.
The Cuban writer and academic Susana Haug presented the day before the title ”The Shining Quetzal and Other Stories”, a compilation of texts from various books by Atwood.
Similarly, in the book fair is sold an anthology with twenty three 23 stories from Canada, prepared by Atwood and his husband, writer Graeme Gibson, under the title “From the winter”, featuring stories by Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, Rudy Weibe, Carol Shields, and themselves, among several authors.