Description
A young adult book that narrates the unsettling rural legends of Chile. A journey across Chile is the perfect adventure for a man in his years of independence. But a series of encounters and conversations with the people who live in the most remote villages of the country will divert his path into a world of oral tradition, magic and mysterious apparitions. Andrés Montero is an oral narrator and he travels through Chile telling stories to adults and children. With this book, he fascinates by his talent for telling in a way that captures the reader with stories from the Chilean oral tradition.
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This book received the Marta Brunet Award for Best Literary Work for Young Adults (Ministry of Culture, 2017)
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 2016
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9789563630947
- Publication Country or regionChile
- FormatPaperback
- Pages104
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleAlguien toca la puerta: Leyendas chilenas
- Biblio NotesAn excellent book where the author manages to transfer the freshness and naturalness of the oral tradition to the literary text
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