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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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

La Durmiente

SHORT-STORY

SAID ABOUT THIS STORY:

La Durmiente (The Sleeper) reformulates a famous and very old and wonderful short-story and endows it with a renewed allegorical content.

As it happens with many classical and popular narrations, this story is close to a parable. Author María Teresa Andruetto mounts, through an elaborated simplification of the narrative form, a recognizable and disturbing atmosphere of palace happiness and daydream that little by little will be disarticulated to alert us about some moral kind of dilemma.

La Durmiente (The Sleeper) can be read as a form of ethical and poetic, and also political, reflection, which magnifies and extends through the iconographic framework created by Itsvansch, with special stress on references to the history of gender fights. Andruetto, like Italo Calvino, finds in literature a way of thinking (herself) in the contemporary world and becoming involving in it, without concessions and aesthetical renunciations.

Mónica Klibanski. Recomendados, Educ.ar web portal

Inés Garland y María Teresa Andruetto, entre los destacados Alija 2009

Destacados de la Asociación de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil de la Argentina (ALIJA) 2009

Premio categoría Novela: PIEDRA, PAPEL O TIJERA, de Inés Garland. Ed. Alfaguara.

Premio categoría Producción Teórica: HACIA UNA LITERATURA SIN ADJETIVOS, de María Teresa Andruetto. Ed. Comunicarte.

El premio Destacados que otorga ALIJA es uno de los más reconocidos en América Latina.

Las obras son seleccionadas por un jurado que se renueva anualmente y que premia en diversas categorías las mejores publicaciones para niños y jóvenes.



Stefano

Short novel. Juvenile
Editorial Sudamericana. Buenos Aires, August 1997. 5th edition, 2006. 96 pages

Stefano is a bildungsroman, it is the story of an inner and outer journey experienced by a teenager who, at the beginning of the twentieth century, in the period between the two great wars, sets off from Genoa and heads towards Buenos Aires to try his fortune. Hunger and pain, the farewell to his the way to the port with some friends who are also leaving, the trip by boat, a shipwreck, the arrival to the port in Buenos Aires, his trip by train to the Pampa, his enrolment in a circus… are milestones in this journey where the adolescent is initiated into the world of sex, love is discovered, a job is found, and he will start building his identity in this new land. A poignant and encouraging novel
about the initiation of a boy into adulthood. Stefano is not just a novel about immigration, it is regarded as a classic, it is a must in juvenile Spanish literature.

“Pay attention: Stefano is an unusual example of the compatibility between suspense and critical realism, between simple and exquisite language”. Peter Braulein. Bulletin Jugend & Literatur und Medien.

Prizes and honours awarded

White Ravens 1998. Internationale Jugendbibliothek. Munich. Germany.
Destacados (Distinguished) ALIJA (Argentinean Children and Juvenile Literature Association), 1999.
Best book, awarded by the “Bulletin Jugendliteratur & Medien”, monthly German magazine of Literature and other Media for young readers. January, 2004.
Finalist for Argentina Editora Mariana Vera. International Young Publisher of the Year Award. London 2005.
Finalist, Edición Santillana and University of Salamanca Prize. Master of Editing. Madrid, 2006.

 

Published bay: Argentina Editorial Sudamericana / Colombia and Latin America Babel Libros/ Spain SM/ Galician Galaxia editorial /Germany Atlantis Verlag.  (*contract expired)

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