Roy Berocay


Roy Berocay is a journalist and an author of children's literature from Uruguay.

Biography

Berocay was born in Montevideo in 1955. He has five children and six grandchildren. In 1986 he published his first novel, Pescasueños. Later on, he started writing children's books, for which he has become widely recognized, as much for his stories about the Ruperto toad as for other widely known novels such as The craziest grandfather in the world, Kicking Moons, and Small wing.
In addition to being a journalist, he is also musician and composer. He was guitarist, composer and singer for a Uruguayan rock and blues group the Count of Saint Germain, and is currently a member of the rock band Conspiracy.

Works