Juan Farias

Juan Farias Díaz -Noriega (Serantes, Ferrol, La Coruña, March 31, 1935 - Villaviciosa de Odón, Madrid; June 11, 2011) was a Spanish writer whose work can be divided into Two great stages: adult readers (from 1959 to 1975) and children and young people (from 1977 to 2011). In this second genre is where he obtained greater recognition.

Characteristic features of your work for children and young

Farias' work is undoubtedly unique in the panorama of Spanish literature, for its political commitment, its will of style and its precise lexicon, the thorough description of the rural world (often, postwar) and its reluctance to adjust to the most typical literary narrative and tricks. The criticism has tended to organize these characteristics under the umbrella of the " media economy ", with the proviso that an economy without concessions must be understood: there is no barochism or rhetorical displays, but accuracy is not renounced nor to dialectalisms, when necessary. Among his numerous awards, it should be noted that in 2005 he was awarded the First Ibero -American Prize for Children and Youth Literature, granted by Editorial SM. He had also obtained in 1980 the National Prize for Children and Youth Literature with one of the one hundred best works of the century XX Spanish, according to the Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation, some children, three dogs and more things.

Works

Adult work

• Hemp Bridge1962
• Numbered children1965
• Water seekers1966. Finalist of the Nadal Prize
• Grand Cabotage, 1968
• The trip of the city 1970
• To Gritos, Gilbert, furiously, 1972
• The Perverted Man1975

Children and Youth Work

• The map and the Birds: Mid-Late Stories, 1977
• The dog without a tail, 1977
• Some children, three dogs and more things1980. National Prize for Child and Youth Literature
• Midwest Chronicles: Difficult years, The ship of the pilgrims and The Keeper of Silence1983-1985.
• The boy who came with the wind1986
• The gardener's son, 1987
• The dragonfly pond, 1987
• The Little Nazis of 43, 1987
• The slope of the gallows1988
• For land of bread carry1988
• The merchants of the devil1989
• A pot full of pencils1989
• The island of Jacobo1990
• Forty children and a dog1992
• Bandit1992
• Carmela1992
• The Things of Paul1993
• The childhood of Martin Piñeiro1994
• The fortune of Ulysses1994
• The tree, the man and the way1994
• Round of sighs1994
• In the shadow of the teacher, 1995
• Numbered children1996
• The Ways of the Moon1997
• Where the whales pass1997
• The elves1997
• When Arturo ran away from home1998
• The seventh day inn1998
• The passing of the days2000
• A basket loaded with words2000
• Ismael, who was a sailor2000
• The last wolf2000
• The troubles of a cartoonist2002
• The madman of the river2005
• A blue ribbon of two palmos and beak
• From the heart of the apple, 2011

• "John Farias, the wonderful world of everyday life", CLIJ, No. 140, July-August 2001, pp. 7-23.

Awards received

• 1960 – St. Thomas Aquinas Short novel Award
• 1964 – Oviedo City Award
• 1965 – Finalist of the Nadal Prize
• 1980 - National Prize for Child and Youth Literature
• 1984 - IBBY (International Youth Book Organization) Honorary List
• 1984 - Honorary List of the CCEI Prize
• 1987 - Honorary mention of the European Prize for Child Literature Pier Paolo Vergerio of the University of Padua
• 1994 - International Enlightenment Award Fundación Santa María
• 2005 - Ibero-American Prize for Child Literature and Youth Editions SM, for the whole of his work

• Included in the List The White Ravens of the Internationale Jugendbibliothek of Munich 1982, 1984, 1986, 1992.
• Finalist of the National Prize for Child Literature 1983, 1987.
• Nominee al Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award - ALMA (Astrid Lindgren Memorial Literature Award), which is awarded annually by the Government of Sweden, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.