Edna Iturralde
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Edna Iturralde is an Ecuadorian
author who has won multiple national and international awards. She is considered the most important figure in children and young adult's literature of her country and, with thirty-eight books published, some of them in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Spain, this author has attained significant international recognition.
Iturralde's literature develops within a multicultural, ethnic, and social context. In an epoch when local and regional histories are being obliterated, and when few people are concerned with the special knowledge that has been preserved by certain local ethnic groups, a voice that weaves together fictional and ingenuous stories, based though they are on serious research, and through such fiction documents and projects such knowledge, is transcendental. Iturralde removes the veils from the identity that is unknown or forgotten and projects it to the rest of the world.
Iturralde is considered one of the most important and prolific figures of Ecuadorian children and juvenile literature. Mother of six children, she has dedicated much of her life to writing for children. Her books have been published in Colombia, Mexico, and Spain and are distributed in the United States, Peru, and Bolivia. Iturralde was the founder and director of the children’s magazine La Cometa ("The Kite"), which for fifteen years was published together with the newspaper, Hoy, from Ecuador. She has published twenty-three books concerning a variety of themes, but for the last few years, she has concentrated on narratives based on ethnicity, and she is the pioneer in this genre in the children’s literature of Ecuador. She was a professor of creative literature at the University of San Francisco de Quito
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She has won various prizes and nominations within and outside her country. Among the most important of these are the Ecuador National Prize for Children’s Literature Dario Guevara Mavorga in Ecuador in 2001, the Skipping Stones Award in the United States in 2002 and 2005, and the Mention of Honor of the Municipality of Quito
in 2003 and 2004. Her work was selected by the SEP within the competition of the Mexican Ministry of Education in 2003 and 2005. In 2005, two of her books were nominated for the Ecuadorian Honor List of IBBY (International Board of Books for the Young). She is the president of the Ecuadorian Academy of Children and Juvenile Literature, which is associated with the Latin American Academy of Children and Juvenile Literature.
Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
author who has won multiple national and international awards. She is considered the most important figure in children and young adult's literature of her country and, with thirty-eight books published, some of them in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Spain, this author has attained significant international recognition.
Iturralde's literature develops within a multicultural, ethnic, and social context. In an epoch when local and regional histories are being obliterated, and when few people are concerned with the special knowledge that has been preserved by certain local ethnic groups, a voice that weaves together fictional and ingenuous stories, based though they are on serious research, and through such fiction documents and projects such knowledge, is transcendental. Iturralde removes the veils from the identity that is unknown or forgotten and projects it to the rest of the world.
Iturralde is considered one of the most important and prolific figures of Ecuadorian children and juvenile literature. Mother of six children, she has dedicated much of her life to writing for children. Her books have been published in Colombia, Mexico, and Spain and are distributed in the United States, Peru, and Bolivia. Iturralde was the founder and director of the children’s magazine La Cometa ("The Kite"), which for fifteen years was published together with the newspaper, Hoy, from Ecuador. She has published twenty-three books concerning a variety of themes, but for the last few years, she has concentrated on narratives based on ethnicity, and she is the pioneer in this genre in the children’s literature of Ecuador. She was a professor of creative literature at the University of San Francisco de Quito
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ is a liberal-arts, non-profit, private university located in Quito, Ecuador. It was the first totally-private self-financed university in Ecuador and the first liberal-arts institution in the Andean region...
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She has won various prizes and nominations within and outside her country. Among the most important of these are the Ecuador National Prize for Children’s Literature Dario Guevara Mavorga in Ecuador in 2001, the Skipping Stones Award in the United States in 2002 and 2005, and the Mention of Honor of the Municipality of Quito
Quito
San Francisco de Quito, most often called Quito , is the capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. It is located in north-central Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes mountains...
in 2003 and 2004. Her work was selected by the SEP within the competition of the Mexican Ministry of Education in 2003 and 2005. In 2005, two of her books were nominated for the Ecuadorian Honor List of IBBY (International Board of Books for the Young). She is the president of the Ecuadorian Academy of Children and Juvenile Literature, which is associated with the Latin American Academy of Children and Juvenile Literature.
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| Desde el Jardín de las Arañas Doradas Quito: Editorial Arcoiris Quito: Fondo Editorial C.C.E. Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana |
| Junto al Cielo-Cuentos sobre Quito Quito: Cosmos Editores Quito: Editorial El Conejo |
| Adventure in the Llanganates Quito: Fondo Editorial C.C.E. Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana. Quito: Grupo Editorial NORMA. |
| Un día más… y otras historias Quito: Alfaguara Infantil, Grupo Santillana S.A. |
| Ser y Compartir - cuentos de valores tres tomos. Quito: Ministerio de Educación/UNICEF. Quito: Editorial Libresa/UNICEF. |
| Verde Fue Mi Selva Quito: Alfaguara Infantil, Grupo Santillana S.A. México: SEP/Aguilar, Altea, Taurus, Alfaguara. ISBN 978970790401-9 México: Alfaguara Infantil, Grupo Santillana. |
| Y su corazón escapó para convertirse en pájaro Quito: Alfaguara Juvenil, Grupo Santillana S.A. |
| Y su corazón escapó para convertirse en pájaro México: SEP/Aguilar, Altea, Taurus, Alfaguara. |
| Y su corazón escapó para convertirse en pájaro México, D.F.: Alfaguara Juvenil, Grupo Santillana S.A. |
| Torbellino (Big Book) Quito: Alfaguara Infantil, Grupo Santillana S.A. |
| Torbellino Quito: Alfaguara Infantil, Grupo Santillana S.A. |
| Caminantes del Sol-Inti runañan Quito: Alfaguara Infantil, Grupo Santillana S.A. |
| El misterio de las bolitas de colores Quito: Grupo Editorial NORMA. |
| The pirate Crazybeard/ The great secret Quito: Grupo Editorial NORMA. |
| The Condor and the Lion Quito: Alfaguara Juvenil, Grupo Santillana S.A. |
| J.R. Machete Quito: Alfaguara Infantil, Grupo Santillana S.A., primera edición 2003, segunda edición 2004, tercera edición 2006 |
| Los grandes se irán y los chiquitos se quedarán Quito: Patronato Provincial de Pichincha. |
| Tears of Angels Quito: Alfaguara Juvenil, Grupo Santillana S.A. |
| Miteé and the song of the whales Quito: Alfaguara Infantil, Grupo Santillana S.A. |
| When the weapons shutted up Quito: Alfaguara Juvenil, Grupo Santillana S.A. |
| Cuando callaron las armas Bogotá: Editorial Norma (Internacional) |
| Los hijos de la Guacamaya Quito: Alfaguara Infantil, Grupo Santillana S.A. |
| The islands where the moon is born Quito: Grupo Editorial NORMA. |
| Simón era su nombre Bogotá: Alfaguara Juvenil, Grupo Santillana S.A. |