María Teresa Andruetto

Argentina, 1954

V Iberoamerican SM Prize to the trajectory books for children and adolescents

Chosen by unanimity by Alija, the Argentinian section of IBBY, as a candidate for the Andersen Award 2012.

María Teresa Andruetto was born in Arroyo Cabral (Córdoba, Argentina) in 1954. She studied Arts in the National University of Córdoba.

She is present in various catalogues and in national and international selections of books for children and adolescents, a field in which she has been working for twenty five years, having been awarded the White Ravens Prize held by the Internationale Jugendbibliothek of Munich in two occasions, as well as the Premio Banco del Libro de Caracas (Caracas Book Bank Prize). She is included in the Honour Lists of the IBBY’s International Hans Christian Andersen Prize (Switzerland). Recently she was awarded the V Iberoamerican SM Prize.

She co-founded CEDILIJ (Center for the awareness and research in the field of books for children and adolescents/Córdoba, Argentina) and has taken part of numerous municipal, provincial and national plans to foster reading.

Her work for adults was awarded the Prize for Novel from the National Arts Fund and she was a finalist of the Clarín and Sent Sovi Prizes.

She has novels, short stories, poems, essays and plays for adults.

Her work has been used as a base for short movies, musical and poetical shows, theatre adaptations and other events.

www.teresaandruetto.com.ar

Works

Adults

Lengua madre (Mother Tongue) novel, 2010
La Mujer en Cuestión (The Woman in Question) novel, 2003
Todo movimiento es cacería, (Any Movement is a Hunting Game) short stories, 2002

Children’s literature

The girl, the heart and the house, short novel, 2011
La durmiente Story, 2010
El incendio (The Fire) Story, 2008.
Agua Cero (Zero Water) Poems for children, 2007
Trenes. Una historia de amor para niños (Trains) Stories, 2008
El árbol de Lilas (The Lilac Tree),Story, 2006
Solgo. Story, 2004
Veladuras (Glazes), Novel for young readers, 2004
El país de Juan (Juan’s Country) Novel, 2003
La mujer vampiro (The Vampire Woman) Stories, 2001
Stefano, short novel,1997
Huellas en la arena (Tracks in the San) Stories, 1997
El anillo encantado ( The Enchanted Ring), Stories,1993

Poems

Beatriz, 2005
Kodak, 2001
Pavese y otros poemas (Pavese and Other Poems), 1998
Palabras al rescoldo (Words amongst embers), 1993