Leonardo de la Caridad Padura Fuentes (born October 10, 1955) is a Cuban novelist and journalist.

He first came to prominence in 1980 as an investigative journalist for a literary magazine called Caimán Barbudo, a well-established publication that is still published today.

[3] "In one of his essays entitled 'I would like to be Paul Auster,' Padura complains that he would love not to be constantly asked about politics in his country and why he continues living there.

The four books were adapted as four Spanish-language television films, which have been released in a group with English subtitles as the Netflix mini-series Four Seasons in Havana.

An English-language remake named Havana Quartet was considered by Starz, with Antonio Banderas tagged to act as Conde,[7][8] but it did not proceed beyond the development stage.

Padura's historical novel El hombre que amaba a los perros (The Man Who Loved Dogs) deals with the 1940 death of wanted fugitive and Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, and the NKVD agent responsible for eliminating him, Ramon Mercader.

It centres "on Stalin’s murderous obsession with Leon Trotsky, an intellectual architect of the Russian Revolution and the founder of the Red Army", and considers "how revolutionary utopias devolve into totalitarian dystopias.