Maria Fernanda Maquieira

María Fernanda Maquieira is an Argentine author born in Buenos Aires in 1966. She studied Literature at the University of Buenos Aires and has a Masters Degree in Editing by the University of Salamanca, in Spain. She has coordinated writing workshops for children and teenagers, and was a member of the board of directors from ALIJA/IBBY. She has been in charge of the Children's and Young Adult Department in loqueleo (Santillana) ever since 1997, where she has edited more than 700 titles of the most prestigious authors from around the world. Rompecabezas is her first novel and is the winner of the Cuatrogatos Award (2015) Recommended by the foundation Asociación para Leer, Escuchar, Escribir y Recrear, IBBY México.