Carlos Ortin was awarded the Spanish Ministry of Culture's 2nd National
Prize for Illustration in a Children's Book
for 1999



NARICES, BUHÍTOS, VOLCANES y otros
poemas ilustrados

(NOSES, LITTLE OWLS, VOLCANOES
and other illustrated poems)
Text by Various Authors
Illustrations by Carlos Ortin
ISBN: 84-930221-1-X
104 pp.
PVP: 18'03 euros


From the minute they are born, poems aspire to independence from their authors and a life of their own. To make them yours, it is enough to recall them or set them on a new page in your own hand.

These, which we found on the street and kept as pets, had once run away from their authors: Francisco de Quevedo, Antonio Fernández Molina, Jean Arp, Gloria Fuertes, Jacques Prévert, Isabel Escudero, Blaise Cendrars, Francis Picabia, Bernardo Atxaga, Manolito el Pollero, Gabriela Mistral, Vicent Andrés Estellés, Baldomero Fernández Moreno, Pere Quart, Cecilia, Heinrich Heine, Joan Brossa, Carmen Santonja, Oliverio Girondo, Angel González, Rafael Alberti among others. Following the Publisher's whim, the illustrator has made beautiful carnival costumes for each.

There are three types of people:
Those who sweat
Those who cough
And those who are happy

(G. Fuertes)


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