Julio Millares

Biting mirrors Julio Millares

In the story "Biting mirrors" the protagonist Mila wakes up one day feeling ugly and the thought soon becomes an obsession that even makes her hide. But her friend helps her to overcome the crisis and revalue herself. This problem is common in girls. All the stories are made from the child's perspective and the high dramatic content of the things they face is faithfully reflected in them. Julio Millares won the Vargas Llosa prize for novels and the Imaginaria magazine prize for children's stories. He lived in Brazil, Italy, France, Mexico and Sweden and then returned to his native Argentina. He is a professor in the Faculty of Arts of the National University of Cuyo.