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Discovering writer and editor Consuelo Gil Röesset

The Hidden Library exhibition is dedicated to Consuelo Gil Röesset, a writer and editor of many of the children's magazines of the mid-20th century in Spain.

Victoria Sotomayor Sáez will accompany us on a journey through the life and work of this woman who knew how to delight young people with her publications.

María Victoria Sotomayor Sáez is a Professor of Spanish Literature and Children's Literature at the Autonomous University of Madrid, currently holding an honorary professorship. For the first twenty years of her academic career, she taught at the Segovia University School of Education, before moving to the Cantoblanco campus of the Autonomous University.

Her teaching and research have focused on two main areas. On the one hand, contemporary Spanish literature , especially 19th and early 20th century theater and gender studies on Spanish women writers during this same period; on the other, children's and young adult literature in its theoretical, historical, and applied aspects.

She has published numerous studies and monographs along both lines. These include Words for a City: The Segovia that María Zambrano Experienced (2004); Don Quixote for Children and Young People: 1905-2008. History, Analysis, and Documentation (ed., 2009); Censorship of Children's Books: 1939-1976 (2016); Two Decades of Children's Literature in Segovia: 1919-1939 (2020); Children's and Young People's Literature of the Republican Exile of 1939, in collaboration with Berta Muñoz (2021); and, most recently, Elena Fortún: Between Segovia and Buenos Aires, in the book Traces of Segovia in the Exile of 1939 (2024).

He has held bibliographic exhibitions on Don Quixote for children and the Calleja publishing house; he founded, together with Alberto Urdiales, the Calleja Museum in Saturnino Calleja's hometown of Alfoz de Quintanadueñas (Burgos); and he has participated in various research projects in literary studies and educational innovation.

She is a member of several scientific societies and a corresponding academic of the Royal Academy of History and Art of San Quirce.

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  • Postal address Biblioteca Pública de Segovia - C/ Los Procuradores de la Tierra, 6. municipality of Segovia . NaN. Segovia