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Mayra Montero was born in Havana in 1952 and has lived in Puerto Rico for over thirty years. She is the author of the erotic novels La última noche que pasé contigo (The Last Night I Spent with You, finalist for the XIII Sonrisa Vertical Prize in 1991) and Púrpura profundo (Deep Purple, XXII Sonrisa Vertical Prize in 2000), as well as of the novels Del rojo de su sombra (From the Red of His Shadow, 1993), Tú, la oscuridad (You, the Darkness, 1995), which established her internationally as a writer after being published in the United States, Como un mensajero tuyo (As Your Messenger, 1998), El capitán de los dormidos (The Captain of the Sleeping, 2002), and Son de almendra (Almond Song, 2006).