Matute, Ana María
Matute, Ana María (1926– ),one of the most talented 20th‐century novelists in Spain. She has received numerous literary awards, including the Cervantes Award in 1959. Besides writing novels for adults, Matute is well known for her children's stories in which she makes frequent use of traditional fairy‐tale motifs and stylistic features. Among Matute's fairy tales are: ‘El aprendiz’ (‘The Apprentice’, 1961), ‘Caballito loco’ (‘Crazy Little Horse’, 1961), ‘Carnavalito’ (‘Little Carnival’, 1961), and ‘El saltamontes verde’ (‘The Green Grasshopper’, 1969). More recently, Matute has participated in the fairy‐tale revisionist trend popular in Western literature since the 1970s. Her contribution to this phenomenon is a rewriting of Charles Perrault's ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ entitled La verdadera historia de la Bella Durmiente...
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