Silvana Paternostro (born c. 1962 in Barranquilla, Colombia)[1] is a journalist who has written extensively on Cuba and Central and South America.
She specializes in women’s issues, and has also written comprehensively about AIDS, revolutionary movements, underground economies and the intersection of literature, music and other cultural forms with politics and economics.
She is the author of In the Land of God and Man: Confronting Our Sexual Culture, which explores gender roles and the effect of government and religion on women’s lives in Latin America, which was nominated for the PEN/Martha Abrams Award for First Nonfiction.
Her exposé of re-virginization centers in the US appeared in the book Se Habla Español: Voces Latinas en USA, the first anthology of new Latino voices in the United States published in Spanish.
[3] In 2014, Paternostro's biography of Gabriel García Márquez, Soledad & Compañía, was published in Spanish.