Fina Casalderrey
Fina Casalderrey (born 11 August 1951) is a Spanish writer and educator, considered to be one of the most important writers of Galician children's literature.
Also recorded as Xosefa Casalderrey Fraga
Fina Casalderrey
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- Name
- Fina Casalderrey
- Born
- 11 August 1951
- Birthplace
- Xeve, Pontevedra, Spain
- Nationality
- Spain
- Occupation
- writer · professor · journalist · pedagogue · ethnographer · playwright
- Fields
- belletristic literature · children's and young adult literature · pedagogy · ethnography
- Honours
- Premio El Barco de Vapor · Spanish National Children and Youth Literature Award · Castelao Medal
- Languages
- Galician
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Fina Casalderrey (born 11 August 1951) is a Spanish writer and educator, considered to be one of the most important writers of Galician children's literature.
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Fina Casalderrey (born 1951) is an ethnographer, journalist and pedagogue, among other activities, of Spanish nationality. The ethnographer was born in Xeve.
Fina Casalderrey is a member of Royal Galician Academy and worked in Galicia. Activity centred on belletristic literature, children's and young adult literature and ethnography.
Languages used include Galician. Honours include Castelao Medal, Premio El Barco de Vapor and Spanish National Children and Youth Literature Award.
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The recorded working language is Galician. The field of work recorded is belletristic literature, children's and young adult literature and pedagogy. Places of work recorded in the authority are Galicia. Distinctions recorded are Premio El Barco de Vapor, Spanish National Children and Youth Literature Award and Castelao Medal.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Fina Casalderrey • Born — 11 August 1951 • Birthplace — Xeve, Pontevedra, Spain • Genre — children's literature, gastronomy
Life and career
Life and career
She was born in Xeve in Pontevedra and began a career in teaching. She first began writing for the theatre before turning to children's books and later books on gastronomy. She received the Castelao Medal in 2003 and the Premios da Cultura Galega in 2015. Casalderry is a member of the Royal Galician Academy. Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. She has also written scripts for a number of short films.
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Selected works
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Gastronomy
Gastronomy
• El libro de la empanada (1993) • Fiestas gastronómicas de Galicia (1994)
Films
• Garuda (2010) • Dos letras (2011) • Querido Tomás (2013) • La última moneda (2016)
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Children's literature
• Dos lágrimas por máquina (1992) received the Premio Merlín • El misterio de los hijos de Lúa (1995) received the Premio Nacional de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil (Spain) and the Premio O Barco de Vapor • El estanque de los patos pobres (1996) received the Premio Edebé de literatura infantil y juvenil • El lago de las niñas mudas, children's literature (2007) received the Premios Frei Martín Sarmiento
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