Marta Rojas (May 17, 1928 – October 3, 2021) was a Cuban journalist, historian, historical fiction writer, and revolutionary heroine.
[1] A witness to the 26 July 1953 assault on the Moncada Barracks, she reported on the subject of censorship to Revista Bohemia.
Rojas wrote several novels dealing with the founding of the Cuban nation and the struggle of the mestizos since the 18th century.
Turning to historical fiction,[4] she published several books, including Moncada, La Generación del Centenario, El juicio del Moncada, Tania la Guerrillera (coauthor) and El que debe vivir (testimonies about Abel Santamaría).
[5][6] In 1992, an extract translated by Jean Stubbs and Pedro Perez Sarduy from Rojas's then unpublished novel, El columpio de Rey Spencer, was included in the anthology Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.