I live on an island, in a city, where the sea is more than a presence: it is the neighborhood. The blue of its waters, beyond a dream of horizon, drifts through verses, through kisses, through baseball teams (even when they lose), through almost every love and desire, and through memories and futures.
That is why this house is an Ala del Mar, a wing of the sea. A place that hopes to give away, in writing, all the luminous blue, and also the shadows, that surround a writer.
The Latin quote, a private gift with which I end my books, speaks of pleasure. The pleasure of writing, and of trying, as humanly and poetically as possible, to do it well. That way the gift can reach every person who arrives at my pages. Receive the warmest and bluest of welcomes. Like pages, the doors of this house stand open. Come in.
Antonio López Sánchez
Fourteen published books across twenty-five years, in genres that rarely share a shelf. For a reader arriving in English, these are the three doors, in the order that makes sense from here.
01
Three books published between 2001 and 2019 on the Cuban song movement that shaped several generations: a history told with its protagonists, a book of interviews with its women, and a study of how those women are written into the lyrics. Research, not memoir, by someone who was also inside the room.
02
Free verse and the décima, the ten-line Cuban stanza. Two awards in 2026 alone. Published here complete, in Spanish, for the very large readership in the United States that reads poetry in that language and does not need it translated.
03
Heroic fantasy, horror and children's fantasy: five novels, one of them a five-volume illustrated saga, and a national award. The genre is enormous in English and the translation is the real cost. Synopses and full manuscripts available on request.
My published books hold editorial exclusivity only within Cuba. World rights are available for editions and translations everywhere else.
Representation outside the island is handled personally by Ernesto Cisneros, from Miami. Publishers, agents, scouts and translators are welcome to write.
Rights offered here are Antonio López Sánchez's own work only. In collective volumes and anthologies, availability covers solely the texts he wrote.