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Ana Barrios Camponovo (born 20 June 1961) is a Uruguayan actress, writer, and illustrator.
Career
Ana Barrios Camponovo studied medicine at the Hospital de Clínicas and specialized in traditional Chinese medicine.
She performed in theater in Uruguay and abroad. She was an actress, scriptwriter, and co-writer for the Teatro de la Barraca group in Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil from 1983 to 1987.
Her book Juan y la bicicleta encantada won the Bartolomé Hidalgo Award in 1995. It was published in Mexico, the United States, Canada, and the Philippines.
Alfaguara published her book Quepo Quito, which took 2nd Prize at the Ministry of Education and Culture Awards in 1997.
She lives in Spain where she has an online television program named Universo Infancia.
Awards
Works
Del verdadero origen de las cometas y otros cuentos del país de los nunca vistos, Tae, 1992, OCLC 42042638
Francisca y el corazón de las ideas, Tae, 1994
Juan y la bicicleta encantada, Alfaguara, 1995, ISBN 9789974410220
Quepo Quito, Alfaguara, 1997, ISBN 9789974590885
Pipiribicho, Productora Editorial, 1997
Evaristo camaleón, Productora Editorial, 1997
Pipiribicho, Ediciones de Picaporte, Uruguay, 1998
Mandalas a volar, Diputación Provincial de Cuenca/Devas, 2007, ISBN 9789875820333
Señor niño, National University of Colombia, 2009
References
External links
Universo Infancia at Asociación El Cuenco de Baubo