| Chiquita Barreto Burgos | |
| Birth Name: | Amelia Chiquita Barreto Burgos |
| Birth Date: | 1947 |
| Birth Place: | Caaguazú |
| Occupation: | Writer |
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.[1]
Chiquita Barreto Burgos was born in 1947 in the Paraguayan town of Caaguazú. She graduated from the Faculty of Pedagogy of the Catholic University of Paraguay.[2]
On 11 December 2015, she received the Roque Gaona Literary Prize and six million Guaraní for her novel Los nombres que habito from the Society of Writers of Paraguay and Gaona family.[3] [4] On 5 April 2017, Barreto presented the new book ¿Dónde van los gatos cuando llueve?[5] and again on 17 July with the novel Tiempo y Destiempo.[6]