Silvana Paternostro (born c. 1962 in

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) is a

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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. She is a Contributing Editor of

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, New York’s leading cultural magazine focusing on interviews between artists, writers, actors, directors, and musicians; and a frequent contributor to

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and numerous other publications. Her work is frequently translated and re-printed, especially in Latin America. In 1999 she was selected by Time/CNN as one of 50 Latin American Leaders for the New Millennium. Her second book, ''My Colombian War: A Journey Through the Country I Left Behind'', mixes memoir with history and reportage to tell the story of Colombia’s 40-year-old civil war and uncover the truth about US involvement in the country. It was published by Henry Holt in September 2007. She was associate producer on '' Che: The Argentine'' and ''Che: Guerrilla'', a two part movie based on the life of

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, directed by

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and starring

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. The movie started shooting in July 2007 and premiered at the

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in 2008. In 2014, Paternostro's biography of

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, ''Soledad & Compañía,'' was published in Spanish.Carlos Restrepo,
Tres días con Gabo y 20 años extrañándolo, dice Silvana Paternostro
" ''El Tiempo,'' 24 Nov. 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2015. Solitude & Company came out in English in March 2019 in translation by

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. Foreign rights have been acquired in Brazil, India, Russia, Serbia, Poland and China.

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