Paula Martín is a teacher, storyteller and a specialist on children and young adult´s literature and on reading promotion born in Buenos Aires Argentina. Her love for stories goes as far as her earliest years thanks to a grandfather whose imagination knew no limits. Her repertoire includes traditional and literary tales, poems, rhymes, riddles, tongue twisters, and songs, which she accompanies with Latin American instruments such as charango, quena and sikus. Her interest in stories and folk music has taken her all around the countries in this collection.
As a bilingual storyteller she has participated in several International Festivals and has toured around United States, Cuba, South Africa, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Brazil and Argentina.
She is a member of the organizing committee of the “Encuentro Internacional de Narración Oral” an International Storytelling Festival and Conference that takes place every year at the Buenos Aires Book Fair. In 2007 she received the “Premio Pregonero” a prize that is awarded every year to people that promote children´s literature issued by Fundación El Libro. She translated Dr. Margaret MacDonald’s book “A parent’s guide to storytelling” Aique Grupo Editor (Buenos Aires, July 2001) and “Desde los vientos de Manguito” by Elvia Pérez, Libraries Unlimited (Westport, CT, USA, September 2004), book that received the American Folklore Society Aesop Prize 2005
At the present time she works for the Plan Nacional de Lectura (National Reading Program) of the Ministerio de Educación de la Nación (National Educational Ministry) working with storytelling performances and teacher´s workshops all over the country, and is dedicated to promote, teach and preserve storytelling. She is also immersed in the investigation, collection and recreation of world folk tales, literary tales and personal stories.
