Elaine Vilar Madruga is a playwright, novelist, and poet from Havana, Cuba. She has a degree in Playwriting from the Higher Institute of Art, has published over thirty books, and her work has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies around the globe. One of the foremost young novelists within Cuba, The Tyranny of Flies is her first work to receive widespread attention throughout the wider Spanish-speaking world, winning Spain's Cálamo Award for "Book of the Year."
