Winner of the  Hans Christian Andersen Award 2012.

The construction of social and individual identity, the sequels of the dictatorship in her country and the female universe are some of the main lines of her work. Her books are read both by young and adult readers, breaking the generational barriers.

She has been working for the last 30 years in children literature, where she took part on the training of school teachers; she has also founded centers of study and specialized magazines, has directed collections and taken part in reading plans. She is guest teacher in many graduate and posgraduate courses and invited author in congresses, seminars, fairs and meetings, in her country and abroad. Her books are subject of study in Argentinian, American and European Universities.

Her writing won her the awards of Luis Tejada (1993), Fondo Nacional de las Artes (National Fund for the Arts) 2002, and in 2001 she was finalist of the Award Romulo Gallegos with her novel Lengua Madre. She was included in the Honour Lists of the IBBY, has been awarded the Iberoamerican SM Prize and is candidate for the International Hans Christian Andersen Prize 2012.

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

I have always liked to write. Since I was a child I made up stories, created heroes who were beyond reality. They were born under the influence of the main characters in the works of Dumas, D’Amicis, Jules Verne or Zane Grey. Later, new books came and the heroes became real people in blood and flesh. Where I was born, you could not avoid reading Onetti and the great Latin American writers, such as García Márquez, Borges, Vargas Llosa, Benedetti, Bioy Casares, Lezama Lima, Rulfo, Cortázar and many others, as well as the great North American writers: Faulkner, Hemingway, Henry James…

I published my first novel not so long ago because before I had been too busy before, with a job that I really loved, since I was distributing in movie theatres all over the world the lives of other heroes, such as Indiana Jones or James Bond, but also the anonymous ones, people with dark and hard existences that one day discover that the soul weighs 21 grams or that the world will always be Babel.

A few months ago I left the direction of Universal Pictures in Spain and, although I am still very attached to the world of the cinema, I finished my second novel: Todas las huellas

Works

El ordenamiento del orden, Novel, 2001

Todas las huellas, Novel, 2009

Juan Ignacio Siles del Valle was born in Bolivia in 1961. He has a bachelor’s degree in Literature by the University of Chile and a doctorate in Spanish American Literature by the University of Georgia, USA. He has published three books of poetry: Con las manos vacías de mariposas muertas / With Hands Empty of Dead Butterflies (1987); Medulamor (1983); and Canción de cuna para la muerte de mi madre / Lullaby to the Death of My Mother (1985). He has worked as lecturer in Literature at the Unversity of San Andrés de la Paz. Between 1994 and 1995 he was in charge of the technical team that started the Educational Reform in Bolivia. He has a university degree in Foreign Affairs. Between 2003 and 2005 he was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Bolivia. He currently works at the Latin-American General Secretariat, in Madrid.

Juan Ignacio Siles has devoted many years of his life to study the Ñacahuasu (1967) and the Teoponte (1970) guerrillas. His doctoral thesis, published under the title La guerrilla del Che y la narrativa boliviana / The Guerrilla and the Bolivian Narrative (1996) is the product of this research. He is one of the few researchers that has worked with the original manuscripts of the Diary of Che in Bolivia, and who has had access to the guerrilla archives, so carefully preserved by the Bolivian Army.

Works

Los últimos días del Che (The last days of Che). 2007

Writer, poet and playwright. She teaches creative writing to children and adults and collaborates in various newspapers and cultural magazines in Argentina and Uruguay.

She is one of the most prestigious and recognised writers in the Argentinean publishing scene.

She has declared that she writes without any discipline but lashed by moments of creativity, which she undoubtedly knows how to use to her advantage. The proof of it is her vast literary production.

She was been awarded important prizes: magazine Cosecha Ñ, 2007; Prize Mario Vargas Llosa NH for short stories, 2005; Prize Clarín, 2003; Hucha de Oro, 2002; Prize of he National Fund for the Arts, 2000; First Prize House of América for Innovative writing, 200; Juan Rulfo, 1997.

As a writer of books for children and adolescents, she was awarded the Highly Recommended Prize by ALIJA. As a playwright, she got the Prize Argentores 2005; First Prize from the National Theatre Institute and the Prize National Fund for the Arts, 2001.

Her short stories are present in numerous national and international anthologies. In the last years, a few of her plays have been performed on stage.

http://discretoencanto.blogspot.com/

Works

Novels

Lucy. Chick Lit. Plaza & Janés 2010.
Album de Polaroids ( Polaroid Album), La Fábrica, Spain 2008
Delito Privado. Crónicas urbanas ( Private Crime . City Column) Marea, 2008
Un fragmento de la vida de Irene S. (A Snatch in the Life of Irene S.)  Colihue, 2004
Perdida en el momento (Lost Within the Instant). Clarín Prize 2003, Alfaguara 2004

Books of short stories:

Esta no es mi noche ( It isn’t my Night) Alfaguara, 2005.
La flor incandescente ( The Incandescent Flower) Editorial Sial, Spain, 2002
Rata paseandera (The wandering Rat), Bajo la luna nueva, 1998

Children’s literature

El príncipe Melocotón 2011
Boris Orbis y la Vieja de la Calle 24 2011
Amor Dragón( Dragon Love). A novel for children. Alfaguara, 2007
El intrépido Medio-Pollo( Half-Chick The Fearless) Norma, 2007
Bichos que vuelan (Creatures that Fly). Anthology of Latinamerican bird legends. Homosapiens, 2006
El rey Antol y el anillo deslumbrante ( King Antol and the Dazzling Ring) Story Ed. Estrada,2006.
Historia del Pollito belleza ( The Story of Beauty Chick) Juan Rulfo Prize 1997, Monte Ávila 1999.

Anthologies:

Pequeñas Resistencias (Resisting in the Small Scale. Eedited by Andrés Neuman, published by Páginas de Espuma, Spain 2005. Antología del cuento fantástico argentino contemporáneo (Contemporary Argentinean Anthology of Fantastical Short Stories). Edited by Alejandro Alonso. Foreword by Lucía Gálvez. Col. Página 12, 2004.
In the last few years some of her theatre plays have been put on stage.

Aurora Venturini was born in 1922 in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated in Philosophy and Education Sciences from the National University of La Plata. She worked as advisor in the Institute of Psychology and Re-education of Minors, where she met Eva Perón, with whom she collaborated and developed a very close friendship. In 1948 she was awarded the Premio Iniciación (Initiation Prize) by Luis Borges in person for her book El solitario (The Solitaire). She studied Psychology at the University of Paris, city where she chose to live as an exile for 25 years after the Revolución Libertadora established by the Peronist Régime. In Paris she lived with Violette Leduc and became friends with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Eugene Ionesco and Juliette Gréco. In Sicily she made the acquaintance of Salvatore Quasimodo, whom she also frequented.

She has translated and written analytical works on poets such as Isidore Ducasse, Count of Lautréamont, Francoise Villon and Arthur Rimbaud; translations for which the French Government rewarded her with the Iron Cross Medal.

“Aurora Venturini lacks silly sanity “. Vicente Aleixandre

“Aurora Venturini, the most extraordinary discovery in Argentinian literature in the latest years”. Periodista digital

Works

Las primas (The Cousins) Novel (2007)
Bruna Maura-Maura Bruna (2006)
John W. Cooke (2005)
Racconto. Poesía, 2004
Alma y Sebastián. Cuentos, 2001
Venid amada alma (2001)
Lieder (1999)
Me moriré en París, con aguacero. Novela, 1998
Hadas, brujas y señoritas. Cuentos ,1997
45 poemas paleoperonistas (1997)
Evita, mester de amor (1997), en colaboración con Fermín Chávez.
Poesía gauchipolítica federal (1994)
Nosotros, los Caserta. (We, the Caserta) Novel, (1992)
Las Marías de Los Toldos. Novela, (1991)
Zingarella. Cuentos, (1988)
Antologia personal, 1940-1976. Poesía , (1981)
Jovita la osa. Cuentos, (1974)
La Plata mon amour. Novela, (1974)

The argentine writer  María Teresa Andruetto has been awarded with the Hans Christian Andersen prize. Sometimes known as the “Nobel Prize for children’s literature”, it’s an international award given biennially by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) in recognition of a “lasting contribution to children’s literature”.

She was at a party in New York, looking into her purse under the bed for the needle that she was about to shoot up her arm when Lucine became conscious of something she had been warned that would inevitably happen. Something like an artifical fire goes through your head, but you don’t see fire. Instead, it looks like blood pouring into your eyeball, the most strikingly beautiful blood that she has ever seen, the most unheard of, the most aweful, but only she can notice it.

With a remarkable narrative skill and a specific language, Lina Meruane tells the medical itinerary of Lucina, a Chilean writer, between New York and Santiago, from the night she suffered the brain stroke until the moment she wakes up after the operation. In this trip, total blindness, uncertainty and the endless visits to her doctor, the moving into another apartment and a travel to her country of birth will untie her familiar ghosts and her most perverse wishes, pushing her relationship with Ignacio, her boyfriend, to the limit.

Fiction and autobiography intertwine in an intense, vertiginous and caustic novel about the relation between the body and the science, the wounds and the lack of roots, the demands and unconditional  love.

Published by: España Caballo de Troya/ Argentina: Eterna Cadencia/ Chile Mondadori

Hay que matar

Novel. Alfaguara* 2001. 116 pages

In the South of the South there was an empire. The empire did not dissolve: it has other, more impersonal names. But it still dictates the law. It still kills.

Milton Roberts, a Welshman, had a bit of land in the South of the South, some sheep, four or five dogs and two or three horses and a son named Byron Roberts. Until The Company made its offer and he uttered a fearless No.

Bill Farrel had escaped, starving, from Ireland and was the police commissioner in the South of the South. He has a wife called Rosario. With Bill Farell, Byron Roberts learned, among other things, the trade of killing.

In the South of the South there is more than enough oil and violence. Power is the property of a few, but vengeance, unlike sex and whisky, is one of the things that cannot be bought or sold. There a man kills the way Andrés Rivera writes: in search of knowledge and justice.

Published world-wide by  Alfaguara. (*Contract expired)