Writer, professor of Greek and Latin. Daniel Chavarria is considered one of the greatest pen of the Spanish Literature, despite his work was published for the first time on 1978. He lives in Cuba since 1969. As fluent speaker of five languages, he has been serving as German translator for the Cuban Institute of Book and professor of Latin, Greek and Classic Literature at the Havana University among 1975 and 1986.

Author of literary and political papers, movie and TV scripts, he considers himself as a pupil of who is, in his opinion, an ''extraordinary fable narrator'', Alejo Carpentier. ''I consider myself his pupil, he was master of Spanish language during the last century, a figure to whom I devoted ''El Ojo de Cibeles'', my novel awarded in Mexico.

Daniel Chavarria has gained the readers and critic`s favorable appraisal due to the incredible ability he has to build engaging plots, boasting an undoubted domain of the narrative techniques.

After writing his first novel Joy, winner of the Cuban Capitán San Luis Prize, hailed as the best police novel from 70-80, Chavarria started a literary career that earned him recognition as one of the greatest Latin American narrators, allowing him to attend outstanding events related to mystery novel such as the Semana Negra de Gijón.

Before the acquisition of Edgar Allan Poe Prize in 1994 conferred by the North American Association of Mystery Writers for his novel Adiós Muchachos, published by Letras Cubanas; he was award-winner of some other prizes such as Premio Nacional de la Crítica for his La Sexta Isla, in 1984; the Dashiel Hammett for Allá Ellos in 1992; the Planeta-Joaquín Mortiz for El Ojo Dyndimedio, in 1993 and later on, Casa de las Américas conferred him its 2000 Prize for his El Ojo de la Pluma del Loro.

Chronology of Prizes:
Joy, 1978
- Aniversario de la Revolución Prize, Havana, 1975.
- Capitán San Luis Prize, to the best police novel published in Cuba during the 70-80 decades. (1978)
La sexta isla, 1984
- Critic Prize, Habana City, annually accolade conferred by Culture Ministry.
Allá ellos, 1991
- Dashiell Hammett Gijón Prize, 1992, acknowledging the best police novel in Spanish language of 1991.
El ojo de Cibeles, 1993
- Planeta Prize-Joaquín Mortiz, Mexico, 1993.
- Educación y Cultura Prize, Montevideo, 1994.
- Ennio Flaiano Prize, Pescara, 1998, for the best novel published in Italy in 1997 by a non-European writer.
- Critic Prize, Habana, annually conferred by Culture Ministry.
Adiós muchachos, 1994
- Edgar Allan Poe Prize, New York 2002, conferred by the Mystery Writers of America to the best police novel in EE.UU (in English), during 2001.
El rojo en la pluma del loro, 2001
- Casa de las Américas Prize, La Habana, 2000.
- Critic Prize, Habana, annually conferred by the Culture Ministry.