Miguel Ángel Mendo Spain

Bio
Born in Madrid, Miguel Ángel Mendo has published more than 20 children’s literature titles with the most prestigious Spanish publishing houses. He has received the Lazarillo Prize (the most prestigious prize in Spanish literature for young people) twice, and the Altea Prize. He was a nominated finalist for the National Prize for Children’s Literature on two occasions. Several of Miguel’s books have been translated into English, German and Italian. He is also the author of the adults’ novels, The Incomplete Light, The Infinite Geyser and Antirrefranero Español, a critical essay about some of the most popular Spanish sayings and proverbs.


What book would you like to snuggle under covers with, and why?
"1984, by George Orwell is one of the books that had a big influence on me in my youth. It is a courageous novel of anticipation and compromise that possesses all the ingredients that, in my opinion, must be in the best stories: realism and fantasy, love, and realistic characters with capacity of growing. And specially, there is a social and political criticism against Stalinism, which he suffered during his participation in the Spanish Civil War.

I learned a lot from this novel. The profound description of the capacity of the totalitarian power to reach with its tentacles the intimacy of the citizens’ private life hooked me and alerted me. Finally, I would say that by reading this novel I learned a lot about writing."

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