Xabier Puente Docampo

Pseudonym: Xabier P. Docampo
Category: Writer and teacher
Birth Date: In 1946
Birth Place: Rábade (Lugo)

Opinión
 Curriculum

He writes literature for children and young people. He also worked as an actor, theatre director, scriptwriter and radio, video and TV director. As a teacher, he was always related to movements of pedagogical renewal. He is on the editorial staff of ‘Revista Galega de Educación’ and ‘Fadamorgana’. He participated with reporters in conferences and courses for teachers about language and literature didactics, literary creation at school, didactic use of oral narration. He is the author of textbooks and didactic and pedagogical essays and writes a daily column in press. He gave lectures in several places of Spain, Europe and America.

 Work & Activities

He published the following books: ‘Misterio das Badaladas’ Vía Láctea, A Coruña (1986), translated into Spanish, Catalan, Basque and bable; ‘Cun ollo aberto e outro sen cerrar’, Vía Láctea, A Coruña (1987); ‘A Chave das noces’, Vía Láctea, A Coruña (1988); ‘Armario Novo de Rubén’ Xerais, Vigo (1989); ‘A nena de auga e o príncipe de lume’, Xerais, Vigo (1990); ‘A casa do porco bravo e Roxelio e a couza’, Xerais, Vigo (1991); ‘País Durminte’, Xerais, Vigo (1993); ‘Cando petan na porta pola noite’, Xerais, Vigo (1994), translated into Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Portuguese); ‘Adelaida, Henrique e demáis familia’, Galaxia, Vigo (1996), translated into Spanish and Catalan; ‘O pazo baleiro’ Anaya, Madrid (1998), translated into Spanish and Catalan; ‘¡Estampado!’, Xunta de Galicia, Santiago (1998); ‘Breogán’, A Nosa Terra, Vigo (1998); ‘O home que inventou unha maneira de andar’, Galaxia, Vigo (1998), translated into Spanish, Basque and Catalan; ‘Purpurina ou a historia dunha pinga de auga’, Xunta de Galicia, Santiago (1999); ‘Catro cartas’, Anaya, Madrid (2000), translated into Spanish; ‘Nube de neve’, Everest, León (2000); ‘Os ollos de Ramón’, Everest, León (2001); ‘¡Víchela, víchela!’, Casals, Barcelona (2001), translated into Spanish; ‘Un conto de tres noites’, Xerais, Vigo (2002); ‘A casa da luz’, Xerais (2002), translated into Spanish and Catalan; ‘Bolboretas’, Everest, León (2004); ‘A decisión de Valerio’, Xerais, Vigo (2005), translated into Spanish, Basque and Catalan and ‘De cores e de amores’, Galaxia, Vigo (2005).

 Other Interesting Aspects

He was awarded the following prizes: ‘Feira do Libro de A Coruña’ for his whole narrative work (1989); ‘Emilia Pardo Bazán’ , Ministry of Education; ‘Rañolas 1994’; ‘Premio Nacional de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil 1995’; ‘Honour List IBBY 1996’; ‘The White Ravens 1997’ of the Jugendbibliothek (Munich); ‘Lecturas’, Galician Association of. Children's and Young People's Books (2004), ‘The White Ravens 2005’ of the Jugendbibliothek (Munich) and ‘Premio Irmandade do Libro’ (2009).