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Family & home stories (Children's/YA)October 2020Casas
by María José Ferrada, Pep Carrió
The authors of this book take us on a journey through the different ways of inhabiting a house. Based on illustrations by Pep Carrió made with acrylic markers, the writer María José Ferrada uses poetic language and humor to propose a set of micro stories that invite readers to observe their own ways of inhabiting the world.
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Picture books, activity books & early learning materialEl espacio entre la hierba
by María José Ferrada, Andrés López
This book object, composed of 30 cards, invites the reader to stop in the poetry that surrounds us.
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Poetry (Children's/YA)August 2018Animal
Poemas breves salvajes
by María José Ferrada, Ana Palmero
"Hidden in his horn he guards the secret of the jungle”. This might be as well the beginning of a novel, but it's an inspired riddle about wild animals. The illustrations in high varnish of this edition highlight the different skin textures of each animal and invites the reader to discover a new way of reading in a tactile and playful way.
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True stories (Children's/YA)August 2018Niños
by María Jose Ferrada, María Elena Valdez
Thirty-four poems, one for each of the young children (all under the age of 14) that were executed, arrested or disappeared during the Chilean dictatorship. A book dedicated to all those little Chilean victims, but also to all the children that each day suffer the consequences of violence.
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Social issues: war & conflict issues (Children's/YA)October 2019Noticias al margen
by María José Ferrada, Andrés López Martínez
Disappearances, ecological disasters and humanitarian crisis are most of the time less important topics in the news —or in our everyday life— compared to movie premieres or the result of football matches. The relevance of this matters, require our urgent reflection.
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Poetry (Children's/YA)El bolso
by María José Ferrada, Ana Palmero Cáceres
Keys, handkerchiefs, coins, three flowers from last spring, a bird. Boys and girls are expert observers and that is why they know that a mother’s purse fits everything. A book in Braille that reminds its readers that when observations are mixed with imagination, the most everyday objects are capable of coming to poetic life.
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Swimming & water sports (Children's/YA)October 2020Nadadores
by María José Ferrada, Mariana Alcántara
There might be many swimmers for sure who, after training so much during the day (“50 meters of Front Crawl, 50 meters of Back and 50 meters of Butterfly”) at night they dream about being fish. But during those same nights, when the moon illuminates the oceans, will fish dream about being swimmers? The authors of this book use humor and poetry to show us that a page can be a deep sea or an Olympic-size swimming pool, depending on the eyes with which it is looked at.
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Family & home stories (Children's/YA)October 2017Mexique
El nombre del barco
by María José Ferrada, Ana Penyas
On May of 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, 456 sons and daughters of republican fighters took the transatlantic boat Mexique, that set sail in Bordeau to arrive in Mexico. Previsions were that they would stay there three or four months, but the Republican defeat and the beginning of the Second World War changed that brief exile into a definitive one. This books tells the story not only of those children, but also about the ship, being aware that we do not know how many boats try to cross our oceans every day, moving human beings that have full rights to a proper way of living and not to stand over a land that tears apart below their feet.
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Poetry (Children's/YA)Natura
by María José Ferrada, Mariana Alcántara
Our forests are shrinking every year due to fires forestry. Trees and all life that inhabits them, from tiny microorganisms to families of birds and animals are destroyed by flames that in most cases, are caused by we, humans.
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Children's & YA2020The Light in the Shadow
by Susana Aliano Casales
Living in the light sounds compelling. Living in the shade is a bit scary. But there is no need to worry, because it is not possible to live alone in one way or another. We generally travel between the two until we find our balance, something that the girl in this story has just discovered.
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Children's & YA2018The Secret of the Red Umbrella
by Susana Aliano Casales
Today the sun shines. The woman is sitting on a bench in the square, under the shade of a large tree. She writes in her notebook.
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Children's & YA2017Nyah Nyah
by Susana Aliano Casales
His name is Pedro and he’s a boy, but he looks like a girl. Unlike his sister, Valeria, who looks like a boy. They’re the strangest kids at school.
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Children's & YA2014My Sheepdog Chiche
by Susana Aliano Casales
Chiche was a brown sheepdog that my grandfather gave my older brother for his birthday. When I was born, Chiche had already lived with us for a few years, so he was part of the family before me.
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Children's & YA2013Going Home
by Susana Aliano Casales
Sometimes, I don’t feel like going home. I run around a bush a hundred times, or I count all the trees along the avenue once again, or I simply lie down on the grass of the plaza, which is like an enormous green carpet all painted with flowers.
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People & places (Children's/YA)March 2018Mi Barrio
by María José Ferrada, Ana Penyas
Every morning Marta goes out and verifies that everytthing is the way it should be: her friends in a terrace playing an eternal game of cards, the same beach as always in the usual place, children having fun in the schoolyard... Just a regular and amazing life in the neighbourhood.
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Literary studies: plays & playwrights2020Federico García Lorca: Una obra teatral Satírica
by FERRADA, Susana
Federico García Lorca: una obra teatral satírica ofrece una lectura inédita de la obra lorquiana que a su vez supone una nueva percepción del poeta al ahondar en una faceta de su controvertida personalidad de la que ninguna otra investigación ha partido para analizar su obra. Este estudio evidencia que lo cómico y lo serio, así como el innegable aspecto crítico, son rasgos satíricos intrínsecos a la obra lorquiana, demostrando que, sin descartar otras modalidades de su praxis dramática, Lorca llevó a cabo su crítica sirviéndose del humor, que oscila entre lo puramente jocoso y el humor negro, y se manifiesta mediante el empleo de técnicas tradicionales de la sátira, con idéntico propósito al del satírico: degradar a su objeto de ataque suscitando sonrisa o repulsa.
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FictionMarch 2019And they say
by Susana Sánchez Aríns
Dicen (And they say) is a family story crossed by Franco's repression. It tells what is not registered in notarial acts, or in newspapers, or in books, or in provincial archives. It tells a story of a day-to-day silence that became long, very long, and that has conditioned us until now. Dicen tells real events in a network of voices silenced for generations, it is not written from the political reflection, but from the poetic justice, it is the contemporary account of the Spanish postwar period. Dicen is an innovative book. It is not poetry, it is not an essay, it is not a short narrative and it is everything at the same time. Written in short sequences, it collects the intimate memory of a family and reconstructs their insignificant lives to show the terror of repression after the civil war. Conversations, poems, stories, essay references, fragmented sequences that the reader orders in a shocking story. The narration drags the reader to the end by the rhythm, the different voices, the authenticity and the gradual understanding of why that time is silenced. The author speaks of poetic justice as a way of giving life to those who did not want to be named after their death: the oppressors. This story recovers their names, their ways of acting, their personalities, their power. And it also brings back to life those who died in the ditches or lived marginalized: the victims. It is very difficult to make historical memory from politics, however, literature is its natural space. An original work, with enormous expressive force and a unique point of view discovered by Susana Sánchez Aríns, an experienced, committed voice. The book has received the Madrid Booksellers Award for Best Fiction Book 2019. (Premio de los Libreros de Madrid al Mejor Libro de Ficción)
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March 2020La morada imposible. Tomo II
by Susana Thénon
Susana Thénon fue una poeta, traductora y fotógrafa argentina (1935-1991), contemporánea a la generación del ´60 (junto a Alejandra Pizarnik y Juana Bignozzi), sin embargo, es inclasificable, una voz sola, fuera del canon por propia decisión, una figura erguida entre el desasosiego y la ironía, una “distancia” urgente en la poesía argentina del siglo XX. Este libro reúne sus poemas publicados en libros (Edad sin tregua, Habitante de la nada, De lugares extraños, distancias y Ova Completa) y una selección de sus textos inéditos. Abarca también su trabajo como fotógrafa (a lo que se dedicó durante décadas) y traductora e intenta rescatar algo de su pasión por la danza en las fotografías a Iris Scaccheri). Hemos incluido además ensayos publicados en revistas y suplementos literarios y algunas notas breves y afiladas que la propia Susana Thénon escribió sobre el enigma de la poesía. Su juego y libertad con el lenguaje se manifestó de modos diversos entre registros muy variados entre la poesía culta y el lenguaje popular, la mezcla de discursos y temáticas, el predominio de la prosa, la degradación de la cultura, la mezcla violentas de estilos, su ruptura con los lugares comunes y las imposiciones de la sociedad a través del humor, siempre políticamente incorrecta. Está siendo traducida a varias lenguas (inglés, alemán y portugués) y su interés y profunda vigencia (es una poeta cada día más actual) crecen día a día junto a las relecturas por parte de los movimientos feministas en todo el mundo que descubren la continuidad de una tradición feminista en la literatura argentina. Thénon, como ninguna otra poeta, es una poeta desobediente y puede asumir el latido poético de nuevas generaciones políticas y literarias que reclaman por los derechos de las mujeres y disidencias. La reciente reedición de su obra permite el acceso a las nuevas generaciones. La morada imposible [The Impossible Abode] Susana Thénon (1935–1991) was an Argentinian poet, translator and photographer, a contemporary of the Sixties Generation along with Alejandra Pizarnik and Juana Bignozzi. Yet by her own decision, she remains outside the canon, an isolated and unclassifiable voice, an upstanding figure somewhere in the territory between disquiet and irony, an urgent ‘distance’ in twentieth-century Argentine poetry. This volume brings together her published books of poems: Edad sin tregua [Age Without Truce], Habitante de la nada [Inhabitant of Nothing], De lugares extraños [On Strange Places], Distancias [Distances] and Ova completa [Complete Ova], as well as a selection of unpublished texts. It also covers her photographic work, to which she devoted herself for decades, as well as her translations, while also bringing to life her passion for dance in her photographs of Iris Scaccheri. We have also included essays published in literary journals and supplements, as well as some short, incisive articles that Susana Thénon wrote on the enigma of poetry. Her playfulness and freedom with language manifested itself in a variety registers: high poetry and popular vernacular, a mixture of discourses and themes, the predominance of prose, the degradation of culture, the violent clash of styles, a break with commonplaces and the impositions of society through humour (always politically incorrect!). Her work is currently being translated into several languages (English, German and Portuguese). The interest in her work and the perception of her profound relevance to our present – she has never felt more contemporary – grow day by day, as do feminist re-readings around the world, discovering the continuity of feminist tradition in Argentinian literature. Thénon is a disobedient poet like no other, and her poetry can take on the pulse of new dissenting political and literary generations fighting for women rights. Her republishing will allow new generations to access her work.
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March 2020La morada imposible. Tomo I
by Susana Thénon
Susana Thénon fue una poeta, traductora y fotógrafa argentina (1935-1991), contemporánea a la generación del ´60 (junto a Alejandra Pizarnik y Juana Bignozzi), sin embargo, es inclasificable, una voz sola, fuera del canon por propia decisión, una figura erguida entre el desasosiego y la ironía, una “distancia” urgente en la poesía argentina del siglo XX. Este libro reúne sus poemas publicados en libros (Edad sin tregua, Habitante de la nada, De lugares extraños, distancias y Ova Completa) y una selección de sus textos inéditos. Abarca también su trabajo como fotógrafa (a lo que se dedicó durante décadas) y traductora e intenta rescatar algo de su pasión por la danza en las fotografías a Iris Scaccheri). Hemos incluido además ensayos publicados en revistas y suplementos literarios y algunas notas breves y afiladas que la propia Susana Thénon escribió sobre el enigma de la poesía. Su juego y libertad con el lenguaje se manifestó de modos diversos entre registros muy variados entre la poesía culta y el lenguaje popular, la mezcla de discursos y temáticas, el predominio de la prosa, la degradación de la cultura, la mezcla violentas de estilos, su ruptura con los lugares comunes y las imposiciones de la sociedad a través del humor, siempre políticamente incorrecta. Está siendo traducida a varias lenguas (inglés, alemán y portugués) y su interés y profunda vigencia (es una poeta cada día más actual) crecen día a día junto a las relecturas por parte de los movimientos feministas en todo el mundo que descubren la continuidad de una tradición feminista en la literatura argentina. Thénon, como ninguna otra poeta, es una poeta desobediente y puede asumir el latido poético de nuevas generaciones políticas y literarias que reclaman por los derechos de las mujeres y disidencias. La reciente reedición de su obra permite el acceso a las nuevas generaciones. La morada imposible [The Impossible Abode] Susana Thénon (1935–1991) was an Argentinian poet, translator and photographer, a contemporary of the Sixties Generation along with Alejandra Pizarnik and Juana Bignozzi. Yet by her own decision, she remains outside the canon, an isolated and unclassifiable voice, an upstanding figure somewhere in the territory between disquiet and irony, an urgent ‘distance’ in twentieth-century Argentine poetry. This volume brings together her published books of poems: Edad sin tregua [Age Without Truce], Habitante de la nada [Inhabitant of Nothing], De lugares extraños [On Strange Places], Distancias [Distances] and Ova completa [Complete Ova], as well as a selection of unpublished texts. It also covers her photographic work, to which she devoted herself for decades, as well as her translations, while also bringing to life her passion for dance in her photographs of Iris Scaccheri. We have also included essays published in literary journals and supplements, as well as some short, incisive articles that Susana Thénon wrote on the enigma of poetry. Her playfulness and freedom with language manifested itself in a variety registers: high poetry and popular vernacular, a mixture of discourses and themes, the predominance of prose, the degradation of culture, the violent clash of styles, a break with commonplaces and the impositions of society through humour (always politically incorrect!). Her work is currently being translated into several languages (English, German and Portuguese). The interest in her work and the perception of her profound relevance to our present – she has never felt more contemporary – grow day by day, as do feminist re-readings around the world, discovering the continuity of feminist tradition in Argentinian literature. Thénon is a disobedient poet like no other, and her poetry can take on the pulse of new dissenting political and literary generations fighting for women rights. Her republishing will allow new generations to access her work.
