Days with children's and youth literature at the UDA

The VI Marathon of the Story and the Children's Book had a second day and conclusion, yesterday, at the University of Azuay. Authors of children's and youth literature met again with the children to tell them stories written by them, while on the campus projects for the development of reading were presented. Alicia Barberis, Argentine writer, was invited to the meeting.

"The curse of the tower and other tales", "Diary of a ghost", "Hell of the living", "The cave of the witches", "Cross the night", are some of his works.

For a few years, Latin America has been experiencing a “boom” of children's and young people's literature towards an audience that was not considered before, thanks to the interest of children in reading and the commitment of authors and authors whose texts are now based on the high creativity of illustrators and together, they sometimes produce true works of art. This is a way to encourage reading and get kids to love books.

Publishing, for the writer, and managing the sale of his work, is always complex; in his case, the first publications were the result of personal efforts, of winning contests, which earned him to be called by some publishers.

In his work there is a bit of everything. In the work for young people, including hard issues such as abuse, the military civic dictatorship that committed countless crimes in his country. In adult literature he has two novels: "Blind Well", about a crime in his city - and "Monte de silencios", a historical novel about the abuse and slaughter suffered by workers of a timber company, in 1921, in Argentina.

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Memories told by women and that underlie time served to tell his latest novel, which also serves to preserve memory.