Biography
Francisco Castro has covered numerous topics in his books for adults and young people – a collection of erotic stories, Geographies, a book narrated by a drug dealer, Lost Generation, a historical novel set in the sixteenth century, The Words of Mist, which won the García Barros Prize. He has won the Blanco Amor Prize for a long novel with Spam, the Voz de Galicia Prize for a novel by instalments with The Heart of Snow White, and the Sarmiento Prize awarded by Galician schoolchildren several times. His most popular children’s book, Call Me Sinbad, was included in the IBBY Honour List. His most recent novel is Love Is a Word like Any Other. He directs one of Galicia’s best-known publishing houses, Editorial Galaxia, and actively maintains a blog, A canción do náufrago.
Synopsis
Call Me Sinbad (188 pages) is a children’s novel and is divided into twenty-two chapters and an afterword. The Galician edition has illustrations by Manel Cráneo and, in a later edition, by Primitivo Marcos.
Sample
I said to my father one day:
‘Your ear is red.’
And he replied:
‘Paulo, stop talking nonsense. Instead of a ten-year-old boy, you sound like a ten-month-old baby!’
What a smarty-pants, my dad. What a joker. What nice things he has to say.
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