The jury met at downtown Havana’s Dulce María Loynaz Cultural Center, chaired by the Emeritus Professor of the University of Havana (UH) Francisca López, National Prize for Social and Humanistic Sciences 2022.

Other members of the tribunal were historians Isabel Monal and Pedro Pablo Rodríguez, poet and essayist Virgilio López Lemus and the academic José Luis Rodríguez.

A writer, Doctor in Historical Sciences, assistant researcher at the Institute of Cuban History and assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Havana (UH), de la Torre was born on September 29, 1945, in the eastern province of Camagüey.

She has taught undergraduate, graduate, master’s and diploma courses at the UH and at the Jaime I University of Castellón de la Plana, in Spain. She has also given specialized conferences in Cuba, Mexico, Russia, Poland and Spain.

She is a founding member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Cuban History and is a member of the country’s scientific associations. She shares her research work with university teaching in the subjects of History of Cuban Thought and international historiography.

She has co-written several monographs, including “El autonomismo en Cuba”, Editorial Ciencias Sociales, Havana, 2000 (Ramiro Guerra Prize, 2000); and “The Early Independence Movement in Cuba”, Editorial Academia de Ciencias, Havana, 1976.

Other works are “Conflicts and Political Culture in Cuba. 1878-1898”, Editora Política, Havana, 2007, Julio Prize, 2003; and “The Cultural Policy of the Cuban Revolution. 1971-1988”, Editorial Historia, Institute of History of Cuba, Havana 2008.

She has been awarded the Prize for National Culture, the National History Prize 2016 and the Alejo Carpentier Medal.

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