Helen Velando (born 3 December 1961) in

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is a

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writer of books for children and young people. Velando books of adventures have become a referent of

Uruguayan literature Uruguayan literature has a long and eventful history. Beginnings Literature properly speaking starts in Uruguay with the country-flavoured poetry of Bartolomé Hidalgo, 1788-1822. The two leading figures of the Romantic period are Adolfo Berr ...

an infantile contemporary.

Early life and career

Velando studied three years of law school but she left when she determined that art was the motor that moved her soul. She began to sing and to study

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

and

puppet A puppet is an object, often resembling a human, animal or Legendary creature, mythical figure, that is animated or manipulated by a person called a puppeteer. The puppeteer uses movements of their hands, arms, or control devices such as rods ...

s, and got to have a blues band. She had many jobs: she sold books, shoes and clothes, made surveys, wove, was a theater educator and scriptwriter for comedy television. In 1989 she began to write adaptations for theater. In 1993, the year in which she gained a Florencio Sánchez Prize as the best new actress, she published her first book. Her great step was in 1999 when, after four years without publishing anything, her book ''Detectives en el Parque Rodó'' was a great success in Uruguay.Biography of Helen Velando (in Spanish)
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Works

*''Las increíbles historias de Superma-pupu, una pulga diferente'' (1993) *''Una pulga interplanataria'' (1995) *''Cuentos de otras lunas'' (1996) *''Detectives en el Parque Rodó'' (1999) *''Misterio en el Cabo Polonio'' (2001) *''Detectives en el Cementerio Central'' (2002) *''Fantasmas en la Sierra de las Ánimas'' (2002) *''Los cazaventuras'' 1, 2 y 3 (2003, 2004, 2005) *''Memorias de una gripe'' (2005) *''Piratas del Santa Lucia'' (2005) *''Cazaventura y el Tesoro de las Guayanas'' (2006)

References

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