A Ship is Drawn in the Horizon
by Andrés Montero
Description
It's summer and the only thing Gabriel is sure about is that he loves poetry. As he begins one of his last school years, literature will push him to open up to new experiences that he had not wanted to approach until then. Conversations with a former teacher and the arrival of some foreign brothers at his school will reveal a new world in which he was not used to live. This is a coming-of-age story which approaches readers to the world of poetry, while narrating a friendship, love and growth tale. Its direct and simple language will easily involve the reader, who will find the plot captivating, emotional and full of important surprises.
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This book was Finalist for the Barco de Vapor Award, 2017 and Finalist for the Santiago Municipal Literature Award, 2019
Author Biography
Andrés Montero (Santiago de Chile, 1990). Writer and oral narrator, author of children, young people and adults books. His work has been published in Chile, Argentina, Spain, Italy and Denmark and has received important literary prizes both in Chile and abroad, most notably is the 10th Ibero-American Novel Award Elena Poniatowska (Mexico, 2017) for his novel Tony Nobody. Montero has also been awarded with the Marta Brunet Award (Chile, 2017), Santiago Municipal Award (Chile, 2017), and has been a finalist for awards such as the Clarín de Novela, Roberto Bolaño and El Barco de Vapor. He has obtained three times the Scholarship for Literary Creation by the Chilean Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage. In 2018 he was part of the Latinoamérica Viva program of the FIL Guadalajara. He is also the founder of ‘La Matrioska’ Company of Oral Narrative and director of the Casa Contada School of Literature and Orality.
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher SM
- Publication Date 2018
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9789563633351
- Publication Country or regionChile
- FormatPaperback
- Pages128
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleEn el horizonte se dibuja un barco
- Biblio Notes“I have been trying to write the first sentence of this book for forty-five minutes. You already know that I am not used to prose …”
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