Argentine publisher publishes work of young Cienfuegos port worker
Linked to various tasks once she began her career path, Yailé Fernández Villar is today one of those young women who also finds her personal fulfillment in literature. Recently, the Argentine Editor “Laya” published one of her works, “Cóndor”, recognition and pride for her, her family and the group of the Port Services Company of the Center, where she today works professionally.
“I never imagined I could write and write what I write,” says Yailé Fernández Villar, a simple girl, but with ideas far superior to the thoughts of many. And this young woman, born in the municipality of Güines, province of Mayabeque, and which Cienfuegos welcomed since her adolescence, always maintained a bond and interest in writing. Sufficient reasons to begin the long journey of literature.
“I always had an inclination for the arts, I liked painting, music, but I was also fascinated by writing. At first I thought it was just a teenager's hobby, but my need to create became more intense, and I understood that literature had an important role in my life.”
Graduated from the Specialty of Cuban Sign Language, at the “Ipol Kim Il Sung”, in Güira de Melena, Artemisa, she always appropriated those resources typical of literary language and its complex ways of making, telling and creating stories, which, From fiction and experiences close to her, she knew how to make art through her hands.
“Belonging to the Mercedes Matamoros Literary Workshop, and participating in different competitions, has given me that maturity, perhaps not the necessary one, but that discipline that every good writer, and especially those who are starting out, should characterize.”
Competitions such as “Writers Meeting” in 2018, from the Benjamín Duarte House of Culture in Cienfuegos, “Provincial Debate on Literary Workshops” of the same year. “Woman Live your Life without Violence from the Fénix Project”, in 2021, as well as the “Benjamín Duarte Provincial Literature” contest, in 2023, where she won the First Prize in the “Story for Adult” Category, are among the achievements of the nascent writer from Cienfuegos.
“The Benjamín Duarte culture house has been for me that place that allowed me to make myself known, that place where I have learned and learn every day those small and large doses about how to create literature and make it reach the entire public. It was there where I obtained other awards such as the “Special” award from the “Fénix Project”, in the short story category for adults and a mention in “Poetry for adults”. In the “Youth Story” category, the “Woman Live Your Life without Violence” award in 2022, the “Municipal Literature Contest 2023”, where I obtained Mention in the “Children's Story” Category, and the “First Prize in the Category “Story for Adults”.
There are many impressions of her about the surprise that a foreign publisher knew about her work and that it published one of her works. Reason that commits her even more to literature.
“Imagine, one always thinks and dreams, even thinks about something like this, that you are here interviewing me or any other journalist, but that they notify you that one of your works, perhaps the work that one believes has the least chance of being awarded or published, and it happens, and that it is outside the Cuban scene, that is indescribable. But without a doubt a motivation that surpasses everything.”
“Cóndor” is a work that tells us about erotic poetry, with solid foundations of true love and the narration of each of those special moments that come to life when two bodies give each other. All this accompanied by a plot very far from fiction, and yet as close to reality as everyday life.
Literary creation that would allow the young port woman from Cienfuegos, who currently works as a Human Resources Management Technician, in the Port Services Company of the Center, to reach other audiences and that they in turn know from this experience, that the Cuban woman in any scenario is creative and undertakes her goals without limits.
