Prize in the category of Theory Production from the Asociación de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil de Argentina, 2009
Renowned in the Theory Category by Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantile e Juvenil (Sección brasileña de IBBY), 2012

One of the greatest dangers that hunt children and young adult’s literature regarding its cataloguing as literature is, precisely, that of being a priori made for children or for young adults. What could be considered “for children” or “for young adults” in a book must be secondary and come in addition, because the core of a text that can be liked by very young readers doesn’t come from its adaptability to an addressee but, most of all, from its quality, and because when we talk about writing that revolves around any topic or gender, the noun is always more important that the adjective.

Of all that has to do with writing, the specificity of the reader is the first thing that calls for an alert look because is precisely there where moral, politics and market reasons are found more easily.

A country’s literature is not only made by its writers, but by its researchers, professors and critics and, most importantly, it is made by the readers who, conversing with the books already written, build new books towards the future. It is a social construction that has to do with understanding the literature of a country as the huge task of a society that by writing, studying, questioning, spreading, reading or ignoring what has been already written makes the work of all of them

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