El Amor de Una Jirafa / The Loving Giraffe
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Puede haber algo más opuesto que una jirafa y un cerdo? Hay dos animales más diferentes? En este libro -escucha bien-, una jirafa y un cerdo terminan enamorándose. En versos cortos y con ilustraciones fantásticas de animales salvajes, Hugo Chaparro cuenta una historia que deja volar la imaginación y lo transforma todo...
Una historia que abre las puertas a jugar con el humor absurdo.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Can there be anything more opposite than a giraffe and a pig? Are there two more different animals? In this book -listen well-, a giraffe and a pig end up falling in love. In short verses and with fantasy illustrations of wild animals, Hugo Chaparro tells a story that lets the imagination fly and transforms everything...
A story that opens the doors to playing with absurd humor.
Chaparro Valderrama, Hugo: -
Hugo Chaparro
Valderrama (Bogotá, 1961) es escritor y
crítico cinematográfico. Ha publicado las
novelas El capítulo de
Ferneli (1992), Si
los sueños me llevaran hacia
ella (1999), No
me olvides cuando mueras (2007), La
sombra del licántropo (2012)
y El Museo Itinerante de la señorita
Schaff (2014); los libros de
cuentos El discreto encanto de los
melancólicos (2011)
y Tratado de simiología (2016); un
libro sobre los héroes clásicos del
jazz Lo viejo es nuevo y lo nuevo es viejo y
todo el jazz de New Orleans es bueno (1992);
las biografías Alfred Hitchcock: El
miedo hecho cine (2005); Marilyn
Monroe: En cuerpo y alma (2009)
y Marta Rodríguez: la historia a
través de una cámara (2015); una
selección de ensayos Del realismo
mágico al realismo
trágico (2005); un libro
collage sobre la historia del cine colombiano Álbum
del Sagrado Corazón del cine
colombiano (2016); dos libros de poemas que
han merecido el Premio Nacional de Poesía otorgado por el Ministerio
de Cultura de Colombia: Imágenes de
un viaje (1993)
y Para un fantasma
lejano (1998); un cuento
infantil El amor de una
jirafa (2004); una antología de
testimonios cinematográficos El
evangelio según Hollywood (2005);
la traducción de La comedia de los
errores de William Shakespeare (2000), y el
libreto de la
ópera Orfeo chamán, publicada
como El Jaguar de
Orfeo (2014), por Tornamesa Ediciones. Fue
becario del International Writing Program de la Universidad de Iowa durante el
otoño de 2002. Es director de los Laboratorios
Frankenstein.
Hugo Chaparro Valderrama (Bogotá, 1961) is a writer and film critic. He has published the novels El capítulo de Ferneli (1992), Si los sueños me llevaran hacia ella (1999), No me olvides cuando mueras (2007), La sombra del licántropo (2012), and El Museo Itinerante de la señorita Schaff (2014); the short story collections El discreto encanto de los melancólicos (2011) and Tratado de simiología (2016); a book about the classic heroes of jazz Lo viejo es nuevo y lo nuevo es viejo y todo el jazz de New Orleans es bueno (1992); the biographies Alfred Hitchcock: El miedo hecho cine (2005), Marilyn Monroe: En cuerpo y alma (2009), and Marta Rodríguez: la historia a través de una cámara (2015); a selection of essays Del realismo mágico al realismo trágico (2005); a collage book about the history of Colombian cinema Álbum del Sagrado Corazón del cine colombiano (2016); two poetry books that have won the National Poetry Prize awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia: Imágenes de un viaje (1993) and Para un fantasma lejano (1998); a children's story El amor de una jirafa (2004); an anthology of cinematic testimonies El evangelio según Hollywood (2005); the translation of The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (2000); and the libretto for the opera Orfeo chamán, published as El Jaguar de Orfeo (2014) by Tornamesa Ediciones. He was a fellow of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa during the fall of 2002. He is the director of the Frankenstein Laboratories.
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