Zoé Valdés

Zoé Valdés is a Cuban author who gained prominence in the late 20th century. She is noted for her exploration of sexual themes, presenting heterosexual feminine desires and fantasies with a frankness previously uncommon in literature by male authors. Her works, such as La última noche que pasé contigo (1991; The Last Night I Spent with You), often feature humor and irony, sometimes mocking the melodramatic tone of romantic music. Valdés, who settled in France, is part of a group of Cuban women writers in exile who became popular in Latin America, Spain, and Europe around the turn of the 21st century.1