María Teresa Andruetto

Argentina | 1954

Winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award 2012. María Teresa Andruetto is a renowned Argentine writer. The construction of individual and social identity, the aftermath of the dictatorship in her country, and the female experience are some of the central themes of her work. Her books, true crossovers read by both adults and young readers, break down generational barriers.

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Spanish (Spain and Latin America) Anaya, Literatura Random House, Babel Libros, Sudamericana, Norma, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Limonero, SM, (México) Ediciones Castillo, Comunicarte Editorial, Santillana, Ediciones del Eclipse, Edelvives, Calibroscopio Ediciones, Ediciones de la Flor, Comisura, V&R Editoras, Las Afueras / Chinese Anhui Children’s Publishing House, Lijiang Publishing / Korean Byeolsoop / Galician Galaxia Editorial / Italian Equilibri, Bompiani, Mondadori, Edizioni ETS, Gallucci Editore, Logos Edizioni, Uovonero, Genesi Editrice / Portuguese Pulo do Gato, Ediçoes Sesc SP, Global Editora, María Jannarelli Estúdio Editorial / German Rotpunktverlag, Baobab Books, Atlantis Verlag / Slovak Založba Malinc / Turkish Bu Yaynevi / Macedonian Ars Lamina Doo / Swedish Goobar Förlag / English Aldana Libros

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A leading figure in women’s writing in her country and a key name in literature for children and young people, she has received the Hans Christian Andersen Award (often referred to as the ‘Little Nobel’), the Ibero-American Lifetime Achievement Award in Children’s Literature presented by SM, and the Novel Prize from the National Arts Fund. With a masterful speech, she brought the 2019 International Language Congress to a close.

She has also been awarded the Platinum Konex and received the Culture Prize from the National University of Córdoba. In 2020, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Arts Fund, Argentina.

Her work has inspired numerous artists to create short films, poetic-musical performances, illustrations, choreographies, oral and stage narrations, and plays.

Able to convey with the utmost clarity complex reflections spanning art, the public sphere, the cultivation of readers, the craft of writing and the unique vocation of the writer, Andruetto gives lectures at numerous undergraduate and postgraduate institutions and is a guest speaker at conferences, fairs and seminars both in her own country and abroad.

(…) There are artists who transcend art and take their places in society, writers who are far more than their books and are able to place their themes in the “conversation” of a people, intellectuals whose impact reaches the human spirit, the one place where people can begin to improve. It is for this reason that I do not hesitate to state that the intellectual work that Andruetto has done over the last 30 years is a kind of philanthropy. Ivan Wielilosielek, El Diario

María Teresa Andruetto’s narrative creates a unique poetry, both in what it says and in how it says it. Pilar Muñoz Lascano and María Victoria Ramos, Fundación Cuatrogatos

María Teresa Andruetto’s writing is less formed in the native tongue than in what she called, beautifully, “the mother tongue”. The mother tongue is a maternal tongue, that is to say, original, because in it a certain voice is articulated, remote but at the same time present, the voice of a plural woman in which all the stories, all the memories, are interwoven. Jorge Monteleone

María Teresa Andruetto has a vocation for watching and listening like no other writer. Silvina Friera, Página 12

One of those writers who always surprises because she is always different in her malleable adaptation to the spirit of each text. Mónica López Ocón

A writer of mesmerizing sensibility. Patricio Zunini, Infobae

María Teresa Andruetto talks as if she was singing —she writes like a composer, like if she was whispering a secret. Softly, quietly, pausing subtly, just like a tuned note, like a clear lake showing its deepest point. Claro que Leo, México

An author who masters all literary genres. Daniel Divinsky, Los libros hablan

(…) the practice of writing as a gift and as a memory. Nora Domínguez

Absolute sensitivity to the human voice. Canela, Argentinean cultural communicator

Annie Ernaux and Andruetto write by digging into the depths of memory. Sergio G. Colautti, Letralia

In addition to its aesthetic value, her literature fulfills an ethical and social function. It encourages reflection on past wounds and the construction of new narratives for the future. Verónica Abdala, Página 12

Andruetto, plenty to say with few words. Tiempo Argentino

María Teresa Andruetto is one of a kind, and Argentine like Forn or Libertella. But better. Andrea Toribio, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos

One of the most powerful and lucid voices on the Argentine literary scene. Verónica Abdala, Radar Libros

In a global context where tensions over cultural and linguistic representation are becoming increasingly intense, her reflections are indispensable. Fernando Viano, Nueva Rioja