Peruvian poet and children’s writer. She studied Philosophy and later did a Master’s in Child and Young Adult Literature. Three of her books have been recognized in the annual White Ravens selection of the Internationale Jugendbibliothek book fair in Munich. In 2013, she won the prestigious album competition, A la Orilla del Viento. In 2017 she won the Cuatrogatos Foundation Prize and in 2019 received an honourable mention at the Talking Pictures awards given at the New York Rights Fair. That same year she won the Hispano-American Prize for Children’s Poetry awarded by the Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas and the Fondo de Cultura Económica. In 2020, her book ¿Dónde está Tomás? received an award from the UNESCO PUC-Rio Reading and Literacy Chair and selected by Crescer magazine as one of the 30 best children’s books of the year. She has recently published Animales peruanos. Her work has been translated into English, Portuguese, French, Korean and Japanese. She has given talks and workshops on writing and about album books for different institutions, including ALIJA (Argentina), el Fondo de Cultura Económica (México), Centro Cultural de España (Peru), la Casa de la Literatura Peruana (Peru), the Andrés Bello University (Chile), the La Fuente Foundation (Chile) and IBBY Chile.
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