María Cristina Ramos

María Cristina Ramos (born 1952) is an Argentine writer and educator. Known primarily for her children's books, she was awarded the SM Ibero-American Prize for Children's and Youth Literature in 2016. In 2020, she was named a finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

Biography

Ramos was born in San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina, in 1952.[1][2] She has lived most of her life in Neuquén.[3]

In 1988, Ramos published her first children's book, the poetry anthology Un sol para tu sombrero (A Sun for Your Hat).[4] She has since published over 50 works.[4] Her books have been translated into English, Chinese, Korean, and Portuguese.[4] In 2002, Ramos established her own publishing company, Editorial Ruedamares.[5]

Ramos is a teacher educator who, in addition to children's literature, writes pedagogical texts.[4] She has led reading initiatives at the regional and national level.[5]

Awards and honours

In 2016, Ramos won the SM Ibero-American Prize for Children's and Youth Literature (worth ‎€26,701).[6]

In 2020, she was named one of six finalists for the International Board on Books for Young People's Hans Christian Andersen Award, one of the top prizes for writers of children's literature.[3] Ramos was the second Argentine author to earn this nomination after María Teresa Andruetto, who won the award in 2012.[7]

Selected works
  • Azul la cordillera (Blue, the Mountain Chain), 1995. ISBN 9875453641
  • Ruedamares, pirata de la mar bravia (Wheel-seas, Pirate of the Brave Sea), 1997. ISBN 9789871362530
  • La luna lleva un silencio (The Moon Carried a Silence), 2005. ISBN 9788466745741
  • Mientras duermen las piedras (Meanwhile the Stones Are Sleeping), 2009. ISBN 9789876420143
  • El trasluz (Against the Light), 2013. ISBN 9789875738669

References
  1. Mehl, Ruth (1992). Con este sí, con este no: Más de 500 fichas de literatura infantil Argentina. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Colihue. p. 527. ISBN 950-581-646-4. OCLC 29430444.
  2. Andricaín, Sergio; Rodríguez, Antonio Orlando (2016). Escuela y poesía. Cuenca: Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. p. 119. ISBN 978-84-9044-229-6. OCLC 968735341.
  3. Grosso, Juliet (2020-01-23). "María Cristina Ramos es finalista del premio Andersen". Diario Río Negro (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-06-02.
  4. Harde, Roxanne (2014). "María Cristina Ramos: Argentina ⋆ Author". Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature. 52 (2): 1–1. doi:10.1353/bkb.2014.0070. ISSN 1918-6983.
  5. Friera, Silvina (2020-01-22). "María Cristina Ramos, finalista del premio Hans Christian Andersen | Es el máximo galardón de literatura infantil y juvenil". PAGINA12. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
  6. "La argentina María Cristina Ramos gana el SM de literatura infantil". El Periódico de Aragón (in Spanish). 2016-09-08. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
  7. Riba, María Laura (2020-02-15). "Escritora nominada al Hans Christian Andersen con momarandu". Momarandu (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-06-04.
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