I’ve Played With Wolves
Gabriel Janer Manila

Pages: 168
Target: 12 +
First edition: 2010


Right Sold: French
JOAQUIM RUYRA YOUNG ADULT'S FICTION AWARD 2009

The story of a wild boy who survives alone in the mountains for over ten years, in the land of the wolves. Based on a true story hidden by the Franco regime, which Gabriel Janer Manila brought to light in his doctoral thesis of 1979.

"I was very young, I must have been six, when one day, before nightfall, a man appeared who I had never seen before. He gave my father some money, picked me up in his arms and put me on the horse. We left. My father had sold me as if selling a goat".

Thus begins I've Played With Wolves, a very hard story, extremely sensitive and beautifully written with the skill of a master of children's and young people's literature in this country, which will captivate young readers and adults alike. This is the first title of our crossover collection, "Bridge", which includes novels for both young people and adults, and which therefore establish a literary bridge between two readerships.

On November 2010 the film Entrelobos (www.entrelobos.net) directed by Gerardo Olivares and based on this story, was released

About the authors
Gabriel Janer Manila (Algaida, 1940), fiction writer, essayist and pedagogue. Since 1975 he has alternated his novels and essays for adults with books for boys and girls, with which he has won many prizes like the Josep M. Folch iTorres (1975), the Serra d'Or Critics’ Prize, or the Generalitat de Catalunya Prize and the National Prize for Children’s and Young People’s Literature (1994). In 1979 he published an essay based on his thesis doctoral: The problems with educating children in the jungle: the case of “Marcos”; thirty years later he has developed the story and turned it into the novel I’ve Played With Wolves, winner of the 36th Joaquim Ruyra young people’s fiction award.


What the press said

“I cannot believe that such an incredible story could have fallen virtually into oblivion.”
(Gerardo Olivares, director of Entrelobos, the film based on this book)

“I’ve Played With Wolves moves sensitive readers of all ages.” Víctor Amela

“A very beautiful text that touches all the senses, a fable written by a free man who likes to champion just causes.” J. Carlos González Faraco