Beatriz Giménez de Ory, National Prize for Children and Young Adult Literature

The Ministry of Culture announced that the writer and language teacher in public institutes in Castilla La Mancha and Madrid, has won the award for ‘Un hilo me liga a vos. Mitos y poemas’ (Editorial SM); an update of classic stories combined with poetry.

The jury of the competition commented that the book is “a unique work in which the updating of a successful selection of classic myths is combined with poems of the same topics, advocatinng the universal validity of myths. The book shows the possibility that the protagonists continue to present an image in which to recognize themselves or in which to perceive the reflection of who they know themselves ”.

Read more here: El País - Cultura

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