Sergio Andricaín Hernández

Writer, journalist, critic, literary researcher, and editor. He graduated in Sociology from La Universidad de La Habana and completed postgraduate studies at the Centro Latinoamericano de Demografía, based in Costa Rica.

He was a researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones Culturales Juan Marinello, of the Ministry of Culture of Cuba.

In 1991, in Costa Rica, he was an advisor for the national reading program Un libro, un amigo, carried out by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, and professor of the Modular Workshop for Reading Promotion, a project developed by the UNESCO Subregional Office of Education for Central America and Panama. He was a consultant for this latter institution in two editorial projects: the Biblioteca del Promotor de Lectura Collection and the book Niños y niñas del país.

Between 1994 and 1999 he resided in Bogotá, Colombia. There he worked as a projects officer for the Centro Latinoamericano para el Libro y la Lectura (CERLALC) and as editor of the children's magazine of the Fundación Batuta. He participated in the creation of the association Taller de Talleres.

As a journalist, he has contributed to magazines and newspapers in Cuba (La gaceta de Cuba, Revolución y Cultura, El caimán barbudo), Costa Rica (La Nación), Colombia (Hojas de lectura, Revista latinoamericana de literatura infantil y juvenil), Spain (Escuela y Biblioteca, Amigos del libro), and the United States (Buen Hogar).

He currently lives in Miami, United States.

He created with Antonio Orlando Rodríguez the Fundación Cuatrogatos (www.cuatrogatos.org), which develops educational and cultural projects, with an emphasis on promoting reading.

In 2021 he won the Campoy-Ada Children's and Young Adult Literature Award 2020 for picture books combining fiction and non-fiction, for the Colección A lomo de cuento, which he published with Antonio Orlando Rodríguez, and which was illustrated by Elisabeth Builes, Roger Ycaza, Israel Barrón, Carolina Durán, and Nuria Feijoo.

Bibliography
Fiction:

Escuela y poesía ¿Y qué hago con el poema? (poetry; Ediciones de la Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, 2016; with Antonio Orlando Rodríguez)
Rustam el valiente y otras historias (Panamericana, Bogotá, 2012; with Antonio Orlando Rodríguez)
El pequeño gran pescador y otras historias (Panamericana, Bogotá, 2012; with Antonio Orlando Rodríguez)

Folklore Collections for Children:

Dulce María de Loynaz (Santillana, 2020) Campoy-Ada Children's and Young Adult Literature Award 2020 for children's biography.
Colección A lomo de cuento (with Antonio Orlando Rodríguez). Campoy-Ada Children's and Young Adult Literature Award 2020 for picture books combining fiction and non-fiction.
Lero, lero, candelero (Everest, Spain, 2012)
Adivínalo si puedes (Panamericana, Bogotá, 2003; with Antonio Orlando Rodríguez)
El libro de Antón Pirulero (Panamericana, Bogotá, 2003; with Antonio Orlando Rodríguez)
Naranja dulce, limón partido (UNESCO, San José, Costa Rica, 1994; with Flora Marín de Sasá and Antonio Orlando Rodríguez)

Anthologies:

Arco iris de poesía (Lectorum, New York, 2008)
¡Hola!, que me lleva la ola (Alfaguara, Bogotá, 2005)
Cuentos de hadas de ayer y de siempre (Magisterio, Bogotá, 2000)
Cuentos de hadas de hoy y de mañana (Magisterio, Bogotá, 2000)
Isla de versos. Poesía cubana para niños (Magisterio, Bogotá, 1999)
Sobre la nube, un lucero. Poesía cubana para niños (Guayaquil, 1996)
Cuentos de esto y de lo otro (UNESCO, San José, Costa Rica, 1994; with Flora Marín de Sasá and Antonio Orlando Rodríguez)
Versos para colorear el mundo (UNESCO, San José, Costa Rica, 1994; with Flora Marín de Sasá and Antonio Orlando Rodríguez)
Ese universo llamado lectura (UNESCO, San José, Costa Rica, 1994; with Flora Marín de Sasá and Antonio Orlando Rodríguez)

Studies and Research:

Espacios para la promoción de la lectura (Taller de Talleres, Bogotá, 1999)
Seis ilustradores colombianos de libros para niños (Taller de Talleres/Colsubsidio, Bogotá, 1998)
Ilustradores de literatura infantil y juvenil (Comfenalco Antioquia, Medellín, 1998)
Escuela y poesía. ¿Y qué hago con el poema? (Bogotá, Magisterio, 1997; Lugar Editorial, Buenos Aires, 2003; with Antonio Orlando Rodríguez)
Puertas a la lectura (Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports / Unesco, San José, Costa Rica, 1993; Magisterio, Bogotá, 1995; with Antonio Orlando Rodríguez and Flora Marín de Sasá)
Reception Study of a Cuban Story for Children. In: Revista latinoamericana de literatura infantil y juvenil, Bogotá, No. 1, January-June, 1995, pp. 14-23.
Prevailing Ideological-Aesthetic Values Among Authors of Cuban Children's Literature. In: En julio como en enero, La Habana, No. 9, 1989, pp. 20-42.
The Most Significant Books of Cuban Children's and Young Adult Literature Between 1959 and 1985. In: En julio como en enero, La Habana, No. 6, 1988, pp. 2-11.
Television, Literature and Children. In: En julio como en enero, La Habana, No. 5, 1987, pp. 2-6.