I, Juan de Pareja
1965 children's novel by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I, Juan de Pareja is a novel by American writer Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, which won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1966.
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Author | Elizabeth Borton de Treviño |
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Language | English |
Genre | Children's novel |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | June 1965 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 192 |
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The book is based on the Portrait of Juan de Pareja, the real-life portrait that Diego Velázquez made of his slave Juan de Pareja. It is written in the first person as by the title character de Pareja, a half-African slave of Velázquez's.