Solgo

SOLGO

María Teresa Andruetto. Illustrations by Cynthia Orensztajn

Children’s story, poetry. Editorial Edelvives, 2011. Illustrated album, 40 pages.

Ages 8 and up.

Solgo is a painter in ancient Korea said to paint trees that birds take for real ones.

Solgo is not interested in money, food, or women. Nor in fame, prestige or honour. He strives only to find the blue of morning.

An original text full of evocative images, accompanied by Cynthia Orensztain’s careful, subtle illustrations.

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El príncipe Melocotón

Story. Edelvives 2011. 69 pages

Ages 8 and up

Once upon a time a baby boy was magically born by a peach tree growing in a palace garden.

This miracle had been brought about by the lamentations of a shoemaker who could not have her own child. On seeing the child, the king and queen decided to take the child in since they did not have any children themselves and the peach tree was in their garden. From then on the little prince lived in the palace. Years later, the king and queen had a little girl. In time the two children fell in love and this the monarchs could not tolerate. Because theirs was a forbidden love, the prince and princess were forced to go through a series of terrible ordeals before they could return triumphant to the palace.

Published by:  Spanish worldwide Edelvives.

Boris Orbis y la Vieja de la Calle 24

Story. Editorial Sudamericana,  2011. 77 pages

Ages: 8 and up

In the city’s darkest, most twisted street, there lived a very, very, very evil old woman. She was so evil that she kept her nephew Boris Orbis locked up in the house. The old woman would make him cook, sweep, clean all in exchange for a clove of garlic and a crust of bread!

Boris Orbis was 13 and had carrot-red hair. One of the things he most liked to do was to play the accordion. One day, music and the wish to meet Margarita Verano made him take a great decision: to flee from the Old Woman and the horrible Calle 24. Now that the decision was taken, the question remained how to go about it?

Published by: Spanish worldwide Editorial Sudamericana

Campeón

Short –Story  Calibroscopio ediciones, 2009. 36 pages

The physician, the priest, the president of the Tamberos Cooperative, the school director, the teachers, the students, the Volunteeer Firemen, the members of the Flor de Ceibo Club. The whole village, in a picturesque parade, moves to welcome the Negro, the Champion.

A moving story, a well deserved memory of a real village hero.

“The whole village gets working to receive the idol, the victor. Hurrah to the black and to the homeland, and a lot of exaltation, in the celebration dedicated to the successful one (isn’t his success ours too?). And with an end that is in the best style of Julio Cortázar. The illustrations supplement and re-signify the text through the naïve. Andruetto revalidates, with this small book, her pedigree: she is one of the most solid voices of today’s children’s literature”. La Nación

Published bay: Calibroscopio ediciones

Niñas y detectives

Short Stories. Bartleby Editores. 2009. 128 pages.

“Tension is never fully contained in her narrative. Violence explodes and trouble is everywhere. Like the scorpions in one of her stories, men and women are always on the attack and to sense the danger one must be alert. What for others may be the tranquil page, here there is real blood, and it’s never gratuitous. My commentary falls short if I say that with Niñas y detectives, Giovanna Rivero bursts with force into the contemporary Latin American literary pantheon published in Spain.

This book is, simultaneously, a storm of imagery, fascinating plots, and a celebration of language. Be advised.” Edmundo Paz Soldán.

“Giovanna Rivero’s stories pound the reader’s mind. Whether it be the subject or the form of the narrative, Giovanna doesn’t want anybody to be indifferent to her literary wagers (…).

(…)”Giovanna Rivero’s boldness with subject matter and attitudes that could be considered taboo is another direct blow to the reader’s jaw. In stories such as Honorarios, not only does one find commotion but a knockout.” Esteban Gutierrez Gómez, Revista de Letras.

(…)”Niñas y detectives goes beyond its own spatial, temporal, and any other circumstances. Niñas y detectives is literature”

(…)”Her pen moves with a firmness that almost gets stuck in your side and you can smell your own blood” (…) Celia Gutiérrez Vázquez

Published by: Castellano en el mundo: Bartleby Editores

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