⋅ Born in Santiago de Chile (1947)
⋅ State Teacher of Spanish (1969)
⋅ Professor of Special Education (1975)
⋅ Bachelor´s Degree in Education (1984)
⋅ Bachelor´s Degree in Literature with a major in Romance Philology (1987)
⋅ Master´s Degree in Literature with a major in Hispanic Literature (1987)
⋅ Postgraduate studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main (Germany) (1970-1971)
⋅ Postgraduate degree: Expert in Children´s Literature. Cátedra Juana de Ibarbourou, Montevideo, Uruguay (1996)
⋅ For over forty five years, Professor of the Faculty of Education of the Pontificial Catholic University of Chile in the Department of Language Arts (Spanish), Children’s Literature and Creative Language.
⋅ Researching Professor of the same university, in the fields of Integrated Expression, Reading and Television, and Translation in Children´s Literature and Multicultural Books.
⋅ She also taught at the Universidad de los Andes, Universidad Alberto Hurtado and Universidad Diego Portales, in Santiago de Chile.
⋅ Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (USA).
⋅ Author of numerous articles in specialized magazines on Children´s Literature and Language Arts
⋅ Author of complementary texts for teaching Language Arts in Elementary School.
⋅ Author of secondary literature for Elementary School teachers.
⋅ Local editor of Bookbird
⋅ Writer of more than sixty books with short stories for children.
⋅ Author of poetry for adults
⋅ Visiting Professor at the Internationales Jugendbiblothek, München, Germany.
⋅ Visiting Professor at the Fundación Sánchez Ruipérez, Salamanca, Spain.
⋅ Member of the Chilean Section of IBBY
⋅ Retired at present. Carries out literature workshops, and provides consultancy and specialization courses.
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