Roy Berocay
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Roy Berocay (born 1955) is a journalist[1][2] and an author of children's literature from Uruguay.
Biography
Berocay was born in Montevideo in 1955. He has five children and six grandchildren. In 1986 he published his first novel, Pescasueños. Later on, he started writing children's books, for which he has become widely recognized, as much for his stories about the Ruperto toad as for other widely known novels such as The craziest grandfather in the world (1994), Kicking Moons (1991), and Small wing (1998).
In addition to being a journalist, he is also musician and composer. He was guitarist, composer and singer for a Uruguayan rock and blues group the Count of Saint Germain, and is currently a member of the rock band Conspiracy.
Works
- Saga del Sapo Ruperto (Saga of Ruperto the toad):
- Las aventuras del sapo ruperto (1994)
- Ruperto detective (1997)
- Ruperto insiste (1999)
- Ruperto de terror III (1995)
- Ruperto al rescate (1999)
- Ruperto contraataca
- El abuelo más loco del mundo (1994)
- Lucas, el fantastico (1997)
- Siete cuentos sin sapo (1998])
- La triologia juvenil:
- Pequeña Ala (1998)
- La niebla (2001)
- Tan azul (2004)
- Pateando Lunas (1993)
- Los telepiratas (1999)
- Babu (1999)
- Un mundo perfecto (2000)
- El país de las cercanías 1 y 2 (2001, 2002)
- Las semillas de lo bueno (2005)
See also
References
- ^ ROY BEROCAY -- REUTERS (June 17, 1990). "Uruguayans Hang On to Their Old Cars". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-12-30.
Stopping for a traffic light at a main intersection in Montevideo, a 1947 British Hillman pulls up next to a Studebaker. A 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air stops behind it.
{{cite news}}:|author=has generic name (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Roy Berocay (Reuters), translated from Spanish by Enrique Lopetegui (June 26, 1994). "More Read About Than Read". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-12-30.
Creator of asphyxiant worlds in which characters moved about the everyday emptiness, Uruguayan author Juan Carlos Onetti, who died at 85 on May 30, was an atypical participant of the Latin American "boom" of the Sixties.
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