Marisol Ortiz de Zárate
# Marisol Ortiz de Zárate

Marisol Ortiz de Zárate (born 1960) is a Spanish writer specializing in children's literature.

## Career

Marisol Ortiz de Zárate's first book was Los enigmas de Leonardo, a historical young adult novel. With its publication, she began to give talks at schools about reading and as a storyteller. She received her first award in the Antonia Cerrato Short Story and Poetry Contest organized by the Association of Friends of Santa Amalia (Badajoz), with a story entitled "Los curas llevan pantalones bajo la sotana". The novel La canción de Shao Li, which won a 2010 Latino Book Award, made her well-known as a writer specializing in children's literature. This adventure book, as well as the rest of her novels, are recommended reading in many Institutos de Educación Secundaria [es] (IES). In 2014 she published her first novel for adults, Una historia Perdida, which won the Felipe Trigo Novel Award.

Ortiz is a founding member of Krelia.a, the Association of Literary Creators of Álava, in Vitoria-Gasteiz, where she lives. She divides her time between writing and teaching at the City Council's creative writing workshops.

## Works

### Novels

* Los enigmas de Leonardo, Bruño, 2002, ISBN 9788421691014
* La cruz bajo la lengua, Arte-Activo, 2007, ISBN 9788493552015
* La canción de Shao Li, Bambú, 2009, ISBN 9788483431894
* Cantan los gallos, Bambú, 2011, ISBN 9788483431290
* Una historia perdida, Algaida, 2014, ISBN 9788498779660
* Rebelión en Verne, Bambú, 2015, ISBN 9788483433713
* Las lágrimas de la matrioska, Bambú, 2015, ISBN 9788483432914, illustrations by Marina Suárez Ortiz de Zárate
* La fabuladora, Bambú, 2018, ISBN 9788483435496

### Short stories

* "Los curas llevan pantalones bajo la sotana" (published in Papeles de Zabalanda, 2009)
* "Un día cualquiera"
* "Cuesta arriba" (published in El amor, los espejos, el tiempo, el camino, A-A Ediciones, 2012)
* "Refugio de piedra"
* "Descubriendo Berlín" (published in El Correo, section Territorios)
* "La noche más larga" (published in El Correo, section Territorios)
* "El confidente precioso" (published in El Correo, section Territorios)
* "El niño pez" (published in El Correo, section Territorios)
* "Por las montañas heladas" (published in Inquietos Vascones, Desnivel, 2013)
* "Campo fronterizo" (published in Un refugio, treinta escritores ante un campamento de refugiados de guerra, Fundación de Estudios Jurídicos y Sociales, 2014)
* "Pasaje a la vida" (published in Un país Extranjero, Agapein, 2016)
* "Calzada de colores" (published in El Correo)

## Awards

* Antonia Cerrato Award, 2006
* Víctor Chamorro Award, 2006
* Encuentro de dos Mundos Award, 2009, Ferney-Voltaire (France)
* Latino Book Award for best young adult fiction, 2010, New York, for La canción de Shao Li
* Finalist at the Hache Awards, Cartagena, for La canción de Shao Li, 2010
* 32nd Felipe Trigo Literary Award in the Novel category for Una historia perdida, 2012
* Finalist for the 2012 Euskadi Award for children's narrative for Cantan los gallos
* María Giralt Award, 2014
