Andres Pi
Andreu is a Cuban-American writer, creative, and educator. With more
than two hundred books published in eleven languages, he is dedicated to children's
and young people's literature and has won important awards such the Campoy-Ada
National Literature Award from the American Academy of the Spanish Language,
the White Ravens List by the International Youth Library in Munich, the
Apel-les Mestres Award from Editorial Planeta, and the White Rose Critic Award,
and has been a two-time winner of the Cuban National Prize for Children's
Literature, as well as Golden Age, and many other
recognitions.
Considered one of the most authentic
and innovative voices of children's literature in Spanish at the moment, his
work is characterized by the introspection of the characters and the use of the
first-person singular.
Andres is also an innovative
curriculum developer and contributing author in ELD, bilingual, and dual
language education and is a National Language Consultant specializing in
multimodal literacy, cross-language transference, and cultural competence.
Originally from Havana, he lives in Miami.
