Stephen Kimber

Stephen Kimber is the award-winning author of one novel and nine books of nonfiction, including What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five (Fernwood, 2013). That book won the 2014 Evelyn Richardson Award for nonfiction from the East Coast Literary Awards, was long-listed for a Libris Award as best nonfiction book published in Canada in 2013, and the Spanish edition won a Reader’s Choice Award from the Cuban Institute of the Book as one of the top ten best-selling books in Cuba in 2016. His new novel, a love story based partly in Cuba and partly in Canada, will be published by Vagrant Press in Fall 2020.

The Cuban Revolution at 60 “most important academic event outside Cuba”

Cuba’s ambassador to Canada described it as “the most important [academic event] held outside Cuba” to consider the state of…

6 years ago

Obama’s Cuba Ambassador: Tears But Hope

On the early afternoon of June 16, 2017, Jeffrey DeLaurentis, the United States ambassador-designate to Cuba, sat in his office…

6 years ago

The Havana Syndrome: An Answer from Science

When someone in the audience asked Dalhousie University neuroscientist Dr. Alon Friedman whether his conclusion — that Canadian diplomats in…

6 years ago

Cuban Ambassador ‘Realistic’ but Hopes for Better US-Cuba Relations

In 2015, early on in negotiations to reestablish relations between the United States and Cuba, an interviewer asked Cuba’s then-chief…

6 years ago

A Tree and a Toast to Cuba-Nova Scotia Friendship

Nova Scotia’s long relationship with Cuba will be celebrated on Friday, Nov. 1, with the dedication of a recently planted…

6 years ago

Uncovering the Story Behind the Story of the Havana Syndrome

Dizziness, blurred vision, memory loss, problems focusing… Something serious seemed to be affecting US diplomats in Havana in late 2016…

6 years ago

Climate Change and Cuba Highlights Conference Panels

On the one hand, Cuba is a climate change “hot zone,” a poor country with decrepit infrastructure staring into the…

6 years ago

Former US Ambassador to Cuba to Offer “Personal Reflections” at Conference

Jeffrey DeLaurentis began his 27-year State Department career as a consular officer in the United States Interests Section in Havana…

6 years ago

The Cuban Revolution at 60

Take one former U.S. ambassador to Cuba, one former Cuban chief negotiator with the U.S. and Canada's foremost medical expert…

6 years ago