Once again this year, the Centro Cultural PUCP (PUCP Cultural Centre), located in Lima (the capital city of Peru), is to host the Festival de la Palabra, an event that seeks to pay homage to the written word as a basic tool in communications and in conveying culture, creating a training area for new audiences and promoting the bringing together of art and humanities professionals.
On 18 and 19 October, the author and script writer Anna Manso is to offer a workshop with the title “Llegir i escriure: com despertar la creativitat a l’aula” (Reading and writing: how to awaken creativity in the classroom). This seminar seeks to provide primary school teachers with tools to stimulate creativity among pupils through reading and writing.
The following day, on 20 October, from 7.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m., Manso is to take part in a conference along with other authors, such as Constanza Gutiérrez, María José Caro and Gabriel Ruiz Ortega. The conference “Desde los ojos del niño (From a child’s eyes)” explores how to explain complex life situations to children.
The last activity involving the Catalan author will be the talk “Historias que marcaron mi vida (Stories that marked my life)”, which analyses how fiction can help live life with love and humour. Manso will share the table with Jeremías Gamboa, Sofía Carrillo, Fernando Ampuero, Norma Martínez, Alejandro Neyra and Clara Elvira Ospina on 21 October from 9.00 p.m. to 10.00 p.m.
Anna Manso (Barcelona, 1969) is an author and script writer. She studied film studies and specialised in script writing for film and television. Since 1996, she has written scripts for children’s programmes (Sesame Street, Super3, Mic, Una mà de contes), entertainment programmes and series (El joc de viure, El cor de la ciutat, Mar de fons, Ventdelpla, KMM). As an author, she has over thirty children’s and youth literature books published. She has won the Gran Angular Award twice, once with the work Canelons freds in 2008 and again in 2016 with Allò de l’avi. That same year she won the Atrapallibres 2016 award (Clijcat) with the work Amics monstruosos. She is also the author of the newspaper column La pitjor mare del món and of the play Perduts a la Viquipèdia. She takes part in different activities to encourage primary school pupils to read and write (Voxprima, El cove de les paraules).
