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Raquel Castro

Raquel Castro Maldonado (b. 1976, Mexico City) is a writer, scriptwriter, professor, and cultural promoter. In 2012 she won the Gran Angular Prize for Young Adult Literature and she is a two-time winner of the National Journalism Prize as part of the production team for OnceTV’s Diálogos en confianza. She is the author of two novels, Ojos llenos de sombra [Eyes full of shadow] (2012) and Lejos de casa [Far from home] (2013). She writes a weekly column on children’s and young-adult literature for La Jornada Aguascalientes and blogs at http://raxxie.com. Castro is married to author Alberto Chimal, whose work also appears in LALT. They live in Mexico City with their cats Primo, Morris, Pulgas, and Beakman.

No Big Deal

“No Big Deal” by Raquel Castro

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April 27, 2018
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