María Teresa Andruetto

Involved for thirty years in the field of children's literature, she has worked in the training of teachers and has founded centres of study and lecture programs.

She gathered her experience in literature workshops into two books realised in collaboration, "La escritura en el taller" (Anaya, 2008) and "El taller de escritura en la escuela" (Comunicarte, 2010), and her reflections in "Hacia una literatura sin adjetivos" (Comnuicarte, 2009).

Storytellers in Spain and Latin America narrate her stories and her books are a subject of study in Argentine, American, and European universities.

[1][2][3] The jury led by María Jesús Gil cited "her mastery in writing important and original works that are strongly focused on aesthetics.

Her books relate to a great variety of topics, such as migration, inner worlds, injustice, love, poverty, violence or political affairs.