Resumes

Resumes

Beatriz Montero

Website: www.beatrizmontero.com

Email: beatriz@beatrizmontero.com

Tel: 0034 + 651 732 693

Beatriz lives in Tenerife island (Spain). She is a storyteller, a writer and got a degree in Philology.  She is the coordinator in chair of  Red Internacional de Cuentacuentos (International Storytelling Network ).

She has told stories in the most important International Festivals, Libraries, Universities and Theatres of Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico, Argentina and Costa Rica. 

Author of Books:

• (2010) “Los secretos del cuentacuentos” (The Secrets of Storytelling), Madrid, CCS Publications. (A manual for teaching storytelling).
• (2009) “Mi primer Diccionario de Madrid” (My first dictionary of Madrid), Madrid, La librería Publications.
• (2008) "Hay un monstruo en el colegio" (There is a monster at school), Madrid, La librería Publications.
• (2007) "Tengo tres mamás" (I have three moms), Madrid, La librería Publications.
• (2010) “Papá, mamá, yo y los monstruos” (Daddy, mummy, the monsters and I), Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Aletria Publications (in press).

Currently she investigates the creation of stories through the fusion of orality with other performing arts and literature.

Enrique Páez

Website: www.enriquepaez.com

Email: enrique@enriquepaez.com

Tel: 0034 + 645 910 352

Born in Madrid (Spain) in 1955. Master in Literature at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Two years of PhD in Literary Theory. He has worked as an editor and a professor of Language and Literature at different levels of education in Madrid and New York (primary, secondary and university).

He received the Award Lazarillo creative writing in 1991 by the novel Give me back the ring, hair brush. He has published six romances, all within the children's literature, and has been translated into German, Italian, Arabic, Portuguese, Thai, Euskera, Catalan, Valencian, Galician and Braille. In his books they have sold over half a million copies.

He lives in Tenerife, and between 1993 and 2008 he directed the Writing Workshop of Madrid with seven specialties (short story, characters, narrative techniques, novel, film scripts, poetry and storytelling). Every year his students published an anthology of short stories. He is currently coordinator of the International Storytelling Network. Enrique Paez is dedicated to writing novels and directs theatrical shows of storytelling.