Maria Teresa Andruetto

María Teresa Andruetto is an Argentine writer of Piedmontese origin. After working as a teacher in the Primary and Secondary School he wrote poems, plays, fiction for adults, boys and children. Lengua madre, a novel about the difficult history of an Argentine family during the period of dictatorship, is considered his masterpiece. Some topics dear to her are the search for origins, diversity, the construction of individual and social identity, the consequences of the dictatorship in her country and the female universe. In 2012 he received the Hans Christian Andersen Prize, awarded by the IBBY (International Youth Book Organization) and considered the Nobel Prize in Literature.