Rebecca Palacios
Logroño, (EFE).- The book “Palarvas” compiles 28 poems created after transforming the failed words pronounced by a little girl with a “rag tongue” into fictional characters, according to what its author, the Logroño writer Sara Suberviola, told EFE .
This journalist and graduate in Philosophy presents this book next Wednesday, March 29, in a recital at the Ateneo Riojano in Logroño.
Suberviola won with “Palarvas” the XIV Prize for Poetry for Children “El Príncipe Preguntón”, a contest organized by the Diputación de Granada to promote literary creation and children’s reading and which is inspired by a character by Federico García Lorca.
The idea for the book arose from some activities based on “wrong words” that he organized with families and on some content created for social networks that he called “Fantastic Fictionary”, he has detailed.
When he had a couple of poems written, he was encouraged to complete a collection of poems, although he has recognized that some of the poems “stayed by the wayside.”
Among all her verses, she prefers “Sapoleón Monaparte”, which “was a lion and a frog, king of the jungle and puddles. He wanted to be the king of the world. He even got it. Although later he ended up crazy, alone and crazy, and became a goat ”.
Its author really likes “La alchafoca”, an imaginary animal that appears in a girl’s bathtub when she can’t turn the shower head; but the book also has a “riddle”, which is a riddle with legs, a “bubble”, like a “ferpecto” circle, and a “spoon”, to eat the soup.
allegorical illustrations
Each of the poems is accompanied by an allegorical illustration to the content of each poem, most of those drawings alluding to animals, and it has several larvae on the cover.
All the illustrations have been made by Silbia López de Lacalle, from Vitoria, chosen by the Granada Provincial Council, who collaborated with Suberviola in the development of the project.
Suberviola has dedicated the book to her daughter Gala, a baby when she wrote the poems but currently amuses her every day with her “rag tongue”, and also to her nephews Elna and Aram, aged 10 and 13, who inspired many of her works. poems with the “palabrejas” that they used to say when they were little.
After working as a journalist in various media outlets and working as a digital content creator, in 2015 Suberviola created the brand “Te invento un cuento”, with which she wrote more than 200 personalized stories on request.
Currently, she provides mentoring and teaches creative writing courses online, an activity that she has assured is very enriching, “by being able to help other people to develop their own literary projects.”
After having published the collection of poems for her daughter “Mama blanket and other kisses in the form of verses” at the end of 2021, she is preparing other works, such as an illustrated book and another of stories for adults.