Aida E. Marcuse
United States
TRANSLATES: English, Spanish, French
Aída Marcuse is a writer and translator of children's literature. She has been widely anthologized and published in such magazines as Tres Américas and Vosotras. Born in Uruguay, Marcuse has lived in Argentina, Venezuela and Peru. She currently resides in Miami.
Marcuse's Lo que cuentan los incas earned her an Order of Merit for Distinguished Services to the government of Peru. Venezuela's Banco del Libro named Cuentos, mitos y leyendas para niños de América one of the 1983's best ten best books published in Spanish. Marcuse also cochaired and organized the first symposium on children's literature, "Illiteracy in the Technological Age?" in 1985, which garnered her a commendation from the city of Miami.
An extensive translator of English, Spanish and French, Marcuse's body of work includes translations of Dr. Seuss, Beatrix Potter and Charles Perrault's Puss in Boots.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Había una vez un cuerpo (1973) A Ministry of Education of Argentina mandatory reading from 1975 to 1981, translated into French and Dutch in 1975.
Marcelo Casi-Casi (1976)
Muñeca de trapo (1977)
Un caballo a motor (1982)
Pasos de arena (1982)
Un vintén pa´l Judas (1983)
Un barrilete para Grompón (1985)
Cuentos de antes de ayer (1987)
La cocina viajera (1987)
Me lo dijo un indio viejo (1994) A Ministry of Education of.Argentina book for Recomended Reading
Lo que cuentan los incas (1999)
Caperucita Roja y la luna de papel (1992)
The Jaguar and the Deer (1991)
Las aventuras de Prudencio el prudente (1999)
Un día en el mar (1999)
Las aventuras de Alba, de la A a la Z (1999)
Mi diccionario de juguete (1997)
Yo y los demás (1997) A Winner of the Ministry of Education of Perú´s bid for Reading Materials for schools
Versos dispersos y cuentos diversos (1998)
Más viejo que refrán (1998)
Tiempo de ser (2000)
El gato Ratonero (2001)
Ese día en la selva (2002)
Del tío Jaguar y otros animales (2003) Selected for publication by the Jury of the Contest organized by Editorial Libresa, of Ecuador
Un trozo de pan/A piece of bread (2005)
La leyenda del ceibo (2006)
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