Authors
Gisela de la
TORRE MONTOYA
Santiago de Cuba, 1956
Genre: Narrative , Children`s
Narrator. Author of the books: The mermaid who wanted the stars (2011), The nest (2012) and The greedy pig (2013). In the year 2013 three of her stories were included in the anthology Coffee with letters. The re-evolution of the Word (Argentina). She is a member of several literary workshops in her hometown, where she won the first prize in the Angelus contest four times. Was also awarded in the competitions Proverso (2011, 2012 and 2013) and Leer es saber (2010), as well as in the meetings of literary workshops organized by the Culture Department. She is a promoter of infant-juvenile reading texts in different institutions and literary spaces dedicated to children and youth.
A compilation of nineteen short stories for children; swift, funny, curious and strange tales, that always amaze with their endings. The texts resume the symbols of the canon of children´s literature, such as the recurrent intertextuality with universal folklore tales or the transgressor treatment of classical figures. With a useful grace, the author takes the animals of the countryside and the city as protagonists that, act like people without wearing their garments: the most virtuous are portrayed honest, laborious, compassionate, brave… while other lack these values.
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