Mirta Yáñez

Mirta Gloria Yáñez Quiñoa is a Cuban philologist, teacher and writer.

Yáñez was born in Havana in 1947.

She graduated from high school in Raúl Cepero Bonilla Special Pre-university Institute, where she was considered a high-performing student. She entered the University of Havana in 1965, graduating five years later. She earned a PhD in philology (1992) at the same university, specializing in Latin American and Cuban literature, as well as in studies on Cuban women's literary discourse. She worked for many years teaching and conducting research at the University of Havana. She was made a member of the Academia Cubana de la Lengua in 2015.

• Sangra por la herida, 2010 • El búfalo ciego y otros cuentos, 2008 • Serafín y las aventuras en el Reino de los Comejenes, 2007 • Falsos documentos. Cuentos, 2005 * • Narraciones desordenadas e incompletas, 1997 (in Spanish) • El diablo son las cosas. Cuentos, 1988 (in Spanish) • La hora de los mameyes, 1983 (in Spanish) • Yo soy Jack Johnson, 1982 (in Spanish) • La Habana es una ciudad bien grande, 1980 (in Spanish) • Serafín y sus aventuras con los caballitos, 1979 (in Spanish) • Todos los negros tomamos café, 1976 (in Spanish)

• Un solo bosque negro, 2003 (in Spanish) • Algún lugar en ruinas, 1997 (in Spanish) • Poesía casi completa de Jiribilla el conejo, 1994 (in Spanish) • Poemas, 1987 (in Spanish) • Las visitas y otros poemas, 1986 (in Spanish) • Las visitas, 1971 (in Spanish)

• Cubanas a capítulo. Segunda temporada, 2009 (in Spanish) • El Matadero: un modelo para desarmar, 2005 (in Spanish) • Cubanas a capítulo, 2000 (in Spanish) • La narrativa romántica en Latinoamérica, 1990 (in Spanish) • El mundo literario prehispánico (collaboration), 1986 (in Spanish)

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