Verónica Murguía

Verónica Murguía (born 1960) is a Mexican fantasy writer who has won multiple prizes for her children's literature and novels. Her husband was poet David Huerta.

Biography

Verónica Murguía was born on 5 November 1960 in Mexico City, Mexico. She attended the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas e Historia (National School of Visual arts and history). She studied history at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and then began working as an illustrator.

Her first publications in 1990 were a novel entitled ''"Rosendo''" and "''Historia y aventuras de Taté el mago y Clarisel la cuentera''", which won the National Short Story Prize for Children Juan de la Cabada. In 1993 Murguía was a FONCA Fellow and studied and lived in Canada for a brief time.

In 1999, Murguía began writing a bi-weekly column for ''La Jornadas cultural supplement. In addition, she has published journalism pieces in ''Etcétera'' and ''Laberinto Urbano''; hosted the educational radio program “Desde acá los chilangos”; participated in an educational program for indigenous children in Oaxaca, Sonora and Yucatán; and taught children's literature at the Mexican Writer's Guild (SOGEM). Since 2001, she has been a member of the National System of Art Creators.

In 2005, her book "''Auliya''" was named one of the books of the year by Banco del Libro of Venezuela and was nominated for the Rattenfänger Prize in Hameln, Germany, as well as being translated into German, Italian, and Portuguese. Her fantasy novel "''Loba''" was awarded the Gran Angular Prize in 2013 from Spain.

Selected works

* ''Rosendo'' Mexico: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (1990) (in Spanish)
* ''Historia y aventuras de tate el mago y clarisel la cuentera'' México: Editorial Amaquemecan (1991) (in Spanish)
* ''David y el armadillo'' Mexico: CONAFE (1998) (in Spanish)
* ''El fuego verde'' Mexico: CONACULTA: Ediciones SM (1999) (in Spanish)
* ''Auliya'' Madrid: Acento Editoria (1999) (in Spanish)
* ''Auliya: eine magische Reise durch die Wüste'' Zürich: Nagel und Kimche (2001) (in German)
* ''Hotel Monstruo, ¡bienvenidos!'' México: Alfaguara (2002) (in Spanish)
* ''Día de muertos: serenidad ritual'' México: Artes de México y del Mundo (2002) (in Spanish)
* ''Simbad el marino'' Madrid: Ediciones SM (2003) (in Spanish)
* ''Alí Babá y los cuarenta ladrones'' Madrid: Ediciones SM (2003) (in Spanish)
* ''El pollo ramiro'' México: Santillana (2003) (in Spanish)
* ''Lo que sí y lo qui no'' México: Secretaría de Educación Pública (2005) (in Spanish)
* ''Nueve Patas'' Mexico: Editorial Progreso (2005) (in Spanish)
* ''Mi monstruo Mandarino'' México, D.F.: Artes de México: Consejo Nacional de Cultura y las Artes (2007) (in Spanish)
* ''Rituales'' México, D. F.: Artes de México: Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno del Distrito Federal (2007) (in Spanish)
* ''Los niños voladores'' México, D. F.: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (2008) (in Spanish)
* ''Ladridos y conjuros'' México, D. F.: Ediciones SM (2008) (in Spanish)
* ''Loba'' Madrid: Boadilla del Monte: Ediciones SM (2013) (in Spanish)

External links

WorldCat Publications list

Amazon Publications list

References

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1960 births
Living people
Mexican novelists
Mexican women children's writers
21st-century Mexican women writers
Writers from Mexico City