House of the Americas
Art Deco cultural center hosting an annual pan-Latin American literary prize and jury.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the House of the Americas in Havana opens in the tense autumn of 1962, when a young Peruvian reporter flew in to cover the missile crisis, and follows him back to the Art Deco building a few years later in a very different role. It also takes in the house's founder, a veteran of the Moncada attack, and the writers from across Latin America who sat on its literary jury. Best heard standing across the street from the entrance.
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