Maite Carranza (Barcelona, 1958) studied Anthropology and worked as a teacher and television scriptwriter while dedicating herself to literature. She is a writer with a long trajectory, known for her more than sixty titles of young adult novels. Her work, which is transgressive and committed, with titles such as Paraules emmetzinades, has received numerous awards, among which the National award for Young Adult Literature, the Critic’s award, the Cervantes Chico, or the award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature
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