BLACK RIBBONS, WHITE COFFINS

(Literary story)

Abstract

Author's Curriculum Summary Graciela Lago was born in Buenos Aires in 1957. She currently lives in Viedma, Río Negro. Her first steps in writing, reading, and dissemination took place within the framework of children's literature. In 1988, Ediciones Colihue published Historia con Alpargatas, Pavadas y Carcajadas, a book later incorporated into Cuba's National Reading Plan. Later came Una amiga color magenta, El día más espantoso, and El Museo del Fin del Mundo, the latter two also part of the Pajarito Remendado collection from the same publishing house. She worked in teaching, as a consultant, and as a manager for various training areas at the O.S.P.L.A.D. (National Training Organization), at the Provincial Training Directorate, and at the Legislature of the Province of Río Negro. She also managed and directed libraries and coordinated literacy and creative writing workshops. In narrative, he published the book of stories Sown in the River (Simurg, 2011) and in poetry A Feather in the Air (Vela al Viento, 2019).