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Pablo Aranda has a degree in Hispanic Philology and is a tireless traveller. Among other things, he has worked as a carer for the mentally ill, as a teacher of young offenders and he has taught Spanish in the University of Oran, Algeria. Since the publication of “The Other City”, his novel which was short-listed for the 2003 Primavera Prize, he has dedicated himself entirely to writing: novels, comment and travel articles for a range of publications. He is also author of “Detatchment from Routine” (2003), which won the First Diario Sur Short Novel Prize; “Improbable Order” (2004) and “Ukraine” (2006). “Fede Wants to be a Pirate” won the second City of Malaga Prize for Children’s Literature in 2011.
Awards:
Primer Premio Diario Sur de Novela Corta
Premio Ciudad de Málaga de Literatura Infantil en 2011
Fede Wants to be a Pirate