Pilar López Ávila

9 libros

María del Pilar López Ávila (Cartagena, Spain 1969) is an award-winning writer of children’s stories. Her passion for children's literature began when she was very young —at the age of nine she was already writing children's stories. PHD in Veterinary Medicine, she currently works as a Biology and Geology teacher at high school in Cáceres. She is married and the mother of 3 children. She is also the director of the Teatro Paraíso. In December 2010, she was awarded third position in the Joaquín Sama”Awards for Educational Innovation in the category “A more civic and caring school”, for the project entitled “Use of waste materials”. In Cuento de Luz she has published Ayobami and the Names of the Animals (2017), winner of the International Latino Book Awards in 2018, and The Kite of Dreams ( 2019).