Felipe never helps at home and has bad grades, frustrating his parents. The document then shifts to discussing Spanish author Jordi Sierra i Fabra. It notes that he was born in 1947 in Barcelona and had a strong passion for writing from a young age. It outlines his career in music and founding a magazine, before achieving literary success winning several awards for children's and young adult literature. It mentions he continues to promote reading and writing for youth through the foundation named for him.
2. Felipe never helps at home, is rude, disobedient
and, in addition, has finished the course with
bad grades. He hopes to receive a good fight,
but his parents go through it! Are they
extraterrestrials? Have they been abducted by
them? But they have gone on strike and they
are not the only ones: their friends have also
been abandoned to their fate ...
Parents to power!
3. Felipe's mother was doing gymnastics.
Felipe was delighted, then, he was stretching
here, there, arms legs, flexed, inspired,
released the air and so on again and again.
But Felipe thought it was a very bad idea.
4. Jordi Sierra i Fabra was born in Barcelona on July 26,
1947. He had a strong vocation as a writer from a very
young age, he took his first steps when he was only eight
years old. With twelve he wrote his first long novel. His
parents were not enthusiastic about this activity. When he
finished high school he started working in a construction
company. He had his first professional incursions in
music, another of his great passions. He was one of the
founders of the Cadena Ser program "El Gran Musical",
and in 1970 he became a musical commentator, which
allowed him to travel around the world with groups and
artists of the moment to cover his performances and write
reports.
5. He was also one of the founding members of the
magazine Super Pop in 1977, dedicated to young music.
In 1978, he was a finalist for the Planeta de Novela Prize.
His dedication to literature increased then.
In 1981 he won the Gran Angular Prize for juvenile
literature for El cazador, and repeated two years later with
... In a place called tierra. Throughout his career he has
won numerous awards, such as the El Barco de Vapor
Prize for children's literature (2010), the Ateneo de Sevilla
in 1979, the Edebé Prize for Children's Literature (1993)
and the Juvenile Literature Award (2006), Prize To the
Shore of the Wind of Mexico (1999) and the National Prize
of Infantile and Juvenile Literature in 2007 and the Small
Prize Cervantes in 2011, among others many.
6. He has given numerous talks on children's and youth
literature, an occupation that he continues to develop
today. It has the Jordi Sierra i Fabra Foundation, created
to promote reading and writing among young people,
which, since 2006, has awarded the literary prize that
bears its name to young writers.
Some of his books have been adapted to theater and film,
and he is one of the best selling authors in our language.
Among his works we also find numerous biographies of
international rock artists, such as John Lennon, Michael
Jackson, Bob Dylan, The Beatles or Rolling Stones.