EDEBÉ Children's Literature Award 2010:
MY BROTHER THE GENIUS, by Rodrigo Muñoz Avia
Lola is ten years old and loves to play soccer, but her parents have enrolled her in violin classes to instill in her a love of music. She has a brother, Gracián, who is a genius, a piano virtuoso whom everyone admires. She loves him very much, but she pays the consequences of her brother's excessive prominence. Because if Lola is clear about something, and she tries to make others understand,
It's just that she's not his brother. She is a different person, with other desires and interests.
With a musician father and a conservatory teacher mother, it is clear that the environment at home is much more favorable to his brother's interests. Far from being crushed, Lola fights with determination to get what she wants, to escape the impositions of the elders and to be herself.
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Spanish
Publication: March 2010
Fragment:
The world may be divided into Mozart and the others. But it could also be divided in many other ways. For example: Leo Messi and the others.
No other member of humanity can score a goal like the one Messi scored against Getafe. Nobody, even if they try, is able to dribble past two players in the center of the field, then dribble past two others, run to the goal with the ball under control, avoid the goalkeeper and score into an empty goal.
Leo Messi yes.
Not Mozart.
RODRIGO MUÑOZ AVIA
A career philosopher, his priority activity is literary, which he alternates with being a film scriptwriter and with the dissemination and interpretation of the work of his parents, the painters Lucio Muñoz and Amalia Avia.
He has published youth novels What we don't know (Ed. Alfaguara, 1996 Jaén award for Children's and Young People's Literature), The hockey goalie (Ed. Everest, Finalist for the 1997st “Reading is Living” award, XNUMX), Los perfectos (XV award Edebé) and JUlia and Gus visit the top manta (Edebé, 2005). Outside of the children's and Young adult sphere, she has published the novel Psychiatrists, psychologists and other sick people (Ed. Alfaguara, 2005), which to date has thirteen paperback editions and three in paperback, and has been translated into several languages, and terrestrial lives (2007)
In addition, he has compiled and introduced two books especially dear to him, one about his best friend, a mountaineer who died in the Himalayas in 2001 (Alfonso Vizán, a pirate in the mountains, Ed. Desnivel, 2004) and another about the writings left by his father (Lucio Muñoz, the rabbit in the hat, Ed. Síntesis, 2006).
As a film scriptwriter, he frequently collaborates with his brother Nicolás Muñoz. The scripts of the feature film stand out Rewind (1998) Pets (2008), and the documentary Susu's journey (2003)
