title: Chiquita Barreto
text: # Chiquita Barreto
  
  Amelia "Chiquita" Barreto Burgos (born 1947) is a Paraguayan writer. She is currently a professor at the Universidad del Norte in Paraguay and often works with the Union of Women for Mutual Help in Coronel Oviedo and student theatre productions.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Chiquita Barreto Burgos was born in 1947 in the Paraguayan town of Caaguazú. At some point, she graduated from the Faculty of Pedagogy of the Catholic University of Paraguay.
  
  On 11 December 2015, she received the Roque Ganoa Literary Prize and six million Guaraní for her novel Los nombres que habito from the Society of Writers of Paraguay and Ganoa family. On 5 April 2017, Barreto presented the new book ¿Dónde van los gatos cuando llueve? and again on 17 July with the novel Tiempo y Destiempo.
  
  ## Citations
  
  * ↑ Balderston & Gonzalez 2004, p. 54.
  * ↑ "Obras teatrales dirigidas por egresados del IMA". La Nación (in Spanish). 19 December 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  * ↑ "AMELIA (CHIQUITA) BARRETO BURGOS". portalguarani.com (in Spanish). Portal Guarani. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  * ↑ "Chiquita Barreto ganó el Premio Literario "Roque Gaona" 2015". La Nación (in Spanish). 11 November 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  * ↑ "Chiquita Barreto gana Premio Roque Gaona". Ultima Hora (in Spanish). 11 November 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  * ↑ "Presentan nuevos libros". La Nación (in Spanish). 5 April 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  * ↑ "Chiquita Barreto, con nuevo libro". La Nación (in Spanish). 17 July 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  