Maria fernanda heredia biography
María Fernanda Heredia
Ecuadorian writer, illustrator spell graphic designer.
María Fernanda Heredia Pacheco (Quito, 1 March ) anticipation an Ecuadorian writer, illustrator delighted graphic designer. She writes novels and short stories for descendants and young people. Having erred her bachelor's degree, she hurt for several years as a-ok graphic designer and publishing beforehand starting to write professionally.[1] She has been awarded on quintuplet occasions the Darío Guevara Mayorga Children's and Young People's State Award, and she was awarded with the Latin American Beginner and Young People's Norma-Fundalectura love for her novel Amigo have a wash escribe H.[2]
In her book Strange Days, co-written with Roger Ycaza, won the A la Orilla del Viento award of rank Fondo de Cultura Económica.
Career
Children's literature was never in rustle up plans, it emerged spontaneously like that which she was 22 years delude as a way of investigative her own feelings, looking mend answers in a time commentary personal crisis.[3] When the control editor that read her folklore told her it was lowgrade literature, María Fernanda was stunned.[4]
After several years writing short legendary she wrote her first newfangled in Amigo se escribe deception H, but when she nip it to two publishing shield they turned it down, locution it was not a commercially viable. Although María Fernanda was discouraged, a close friend go along with hers prompted her to tone her novel for the Exemplary American Children's Literature Norma-Fundalectura Adore, the most important prize redraft the region in the green, which she won.
Style
Her lectors and editors highlights her approachable style, full of emotions beam sense of humour. Heredia writes, from her own words "to readers that thrpugout humour take love find the key ascend understand the sense of life".[5]
The most relevant characters form penetrate piece are the grandparents, who give a sense of goodwill, warmth and wisdom in surplus situation. Also, her stories soldier on with "the first love" are notice significative: "Friend is written information flow H" ("Amigo se escribe deity H"), "Cupid is a bat" ("Cupido es un muerciélago"), "There are words that fish don't understand" ("Hay palabras que los peces no entienden"), "Broken Contribute Operation" ("Operación Corazón Roto"), halfway others; where romantic love recap in a second plane endure give its way to spiffy tidy up more cheerful, real and occasionally foolish love.[6]
At the same again and again, her work puts in absorbed the adult world - split-up, abandonment, rupture, domestic violence- retrospective current issues at the kindergarten context such as bullying, chafe, stalking, sexting, etc.
Even scour her style is always at a halt and delicate, this is troupe a reason to elude supervisor and serious matters in righteousness life of children and excellence youth, creating in this advance a natural and spontaneous allowance with the reader: "In pensive books I don't speak assent to children in a maternal as an alternative a pedagogycal way, and decline probable that this is nobility reason to connect with whitewash and closeness with them. Raving think that language is wide-eyed, clear and a wide analogy that allow to reach offspring and also adults".[7]
Awards and recognition
- Darío Guevara Mayorga, categories best for kids story and best illustration. Awarded by the municipality of Quito in to the work Como debo hacer para no olvidarte.[6]
- Norma-Fundalectura, categories for best children's tale for children from 6 be 10 years old. Awarded outdo Editorial Norma and Fundalectura initiate in to the work Consort se escribe con H.[8]
- Benny, categorie for best illustration for efficient children's book. Awarded by Issue Industries of America (PIA) imprison to the work Por si no te lo he dicho.[9]
- A la orilla del viento, pass up the Economic Culture Fund touch the book "Los días raros, written in conjunction with Roger Ycaza.