by Ana María Matute · Ediciones Martínez Roca · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788427028586
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«Cuentos de infancia» is the collection of short stories by Ana María Matute, published by Ediciones Martínez Roca in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
Ana María Matute began writing and drawing these stories at the age of five. The volume arranges them by stages of her childhood, up to the age of fourteen, and includes a facsimile of «El duende y el niño»; their themes anticipate the universe the author would develop in her later work.
First edition published on July 20, 2002.
Intended for readers aged 5 and up and for those wishing to discover the origins of Ana María Matute's narrative.
Ana María Matute Ausejo was a Spanish writer and member of the Real Academia Española. In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for Primera memoria. The third woman to receive the Cervantes Prize for her literary oeuvre, she is considered one of the foremost novelists of the posguerra, the period immediately following the Spanish Civil War.
