Education
Fernandez Fe graduated of French Language at University of Havana in 1995.
Fernandez Fe graduated of French Language at University of Havana in 1995.
His best-known works are the novels Louisiana Falacia (1999) and El último día del estornino (2011) and the books of essays "Cuerpo a diario" (2007) and "Notas al total" (2015). He has worked as translator and professor of French in Cuba and in Ecuador. He has translated into Spanish the works of Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Antonin Artaud, Emil Cioran and Denis Roche, among others authors.
lieutenant was followed by Relicarios (1994) and Las palabras pedestres (1996).
Fernandez Fe wrote his first novella, Louisiana Falacia, in 1996. “A work of deep anxiety and odd maturity… (…)", according to the Cuban writer and Leonardo Padura."lieutenant is an indisputable sign that a new narrator has born in Cuba (…).”.
The novella received an honorable mention in the Contest Italo Calvino, of which Padura was one of the jurors. The book of essay Cuerpo a diario (2007) is a curious panorama on diaries written in extreme situations like war, illness or living in totalitarian states.
In the 2011 he published El último día del estornino.
Foreign the critic Jeff Lawrence, this book marks "the insertion of Fernández Fe in an important current of contemporary Latin American writers like Ricardo Piglia, Roberto Bolaño, and Juan Villoro". Rafael Rojas thinks that in this novel there is "a multiple invention of writing, text, authorship and reader, trying to destabilize the poetic traditions of the Cuban literature of the last half century" Fernandez Fe resides in the United States since 2013. Of his last book, Notas al total, published in 2015, the Cuban critic Gilberto Padilla Cárdenas has said: "Notas al total was probably the best book published by a Cuban writer in the year 2015.
GFF Is in the Hall of the Fame of the Cuban essay () While the others age, GFF rejuvenates with a literature () that reads like a battle of other genres -journalism, history, testimony, et cetera- against the nirvana of the traditional forms." Honorable mention in the Contest Juan Rulfo of Essays 2002, sponsored by Radio France Internationale (RFI) for the essay Un escritor de novelas llamado Roland Bathes (A writer of novels called Roland Barthes) Louisiana Falacia (The fallacy) was awarded with an honorable mention in the Contest Italo Calvino, sponsored by Cuba"s Union of Writers and Arci Nuova Associazione, of Italy, in 1997.
Poetry prize of the magazine Louisiana Gaceta de Cuba, 1997. David prize of poetry, Havana, 1995, for Las palabras pedestres (The pedestrian words).
Poetry prize Luis Rogelio Nogueras, Havana, 1990, for El llanto del escriba (The crying of the scribe).
