Name Lourdes Urrea | Role Author | |
LA ISLA DE SHAPU de Lourdes Urrea en FIL Monterrey 2015
Lourdes Urrea (born 17 July 1954 in Mazatlan, Mexico) is an author, artist and speaker. She wrote her first poems at the early age of twelve, and her first mystery story when she was sixteen years old. She is the author of the “Cuentos de Escalofrío” and “Castillo del Terror” series for young readers.
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Her short novels are used in the United States as reading material for bilingual middle graders. She is also author of “English for the Latin student” and “Spanish for the foreign student” language text books, and of two books of Poetry “Versos Prohibidos” and “Historias familiares”.
Her multimedia lecture “The goodness of Reading” has been presented in libraries and schools around the world, inspiring children and adults to take up reading as an enriching life experience.
Her writing depicts her vast traveling and the author’s desire to give children a glimpse of the diversity of cultures in the world. Each one of her stories takes place in a different country. In November 2008 Lourdes Urrea was honored with the Doctor Honoris Causa appointment by the Latin American Council of Excellence in Education, for her contribution to education in Latin American countries.