Eduardo Rafael Heras León[1] (5 August 1940 – 12 April 2023) was a Cuban writer and professor who was awarded with Cuba's National Literature Prize in 2014.

[citation needed] He fought in support of the revolutionary government in the attack on the Bay of Pigs in April 1961.

[citation needed] In 1968 he won the David Prize [es] for his book La guerra tuvo seis nombres ("The War Had Six Names").

[5] In 1970, he won another prize for the book Los pasos en la hierba ("The Steps on the Grass"), this time awarded by Casa de las Américas.

[5] With the support of the Ministry of Culture and National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), he founded the Centro de Formación Literaria Onelio Jorge Cardoso [es] in 1998, a place where young talents learn literary techniques.