María José Ferrada
Chilean writer and journalist
María José Ferrada (born 1977) is a journalist and writer from Chile. She has written numerous books for children and young adults in the Spanish language, and her work has been widely translated. She has received multiple awards for her work, including the Premio Academia of the Academia Chilena de la Lengua, and the Literary Prize of the City of Santiago, and her books for children have been published in several countries, including Spain, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Italy and the United States, in addition to Chile. She is currently the editor of Chile para Niños, which is the National Library of Chile's digital resource center for children.
Biography
María José Ferrada was born in Temuco, Chile, in 1977. She studied at the Universidad Diego Portales, and later at the University of Barcelona, earning a master's degree in Asia-Pacific studies. She lives in Santiago de Chile.
Career
Ferrada began writing stories for her younger brother, and self-published her first book, 12 historias minúsculas de la tierra, el cielo y el mar (12 Tiny Stories of the Earth, the Sky, and the Sea, 2005). She has since written numerous books for children and young adults in Spanish, and has been published in Chile and in Spain. She followed this with Un mundo raro (illustrated by Nicolai Troshinsky), which was published in Spain in 2010.
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