Zo� Vald�s is a Cuban writer. She studied at the Instituto Superior Pedag�gico Enrique Jos� Varona, but did not graduate. From 1984 to 1988, she worked for the Delegaci�n de Cuba at UNESCO in Paris and in the Oficina Cultural de la Misi�n de Cuba in Paris. From 1990 to 1995, she was an editor of the magazine Cine Cubano. She lives with her daughter in Paris. She has been married three times: with Cuban writer Manuel Pereira Quintero, with Cuban government official Jos� Antonio Gonz�lez and Cuban independent filmmaker Ricardo Vega, whom she divorced in 2013. [More at Wikipedia]

May 2nd, 1959 in Havana (Age 64)