Helen Velando

Estudió tres años en la facultad de Derecho, pero abandonó para seguir su vocación artística. Comenzó a cantar y estudiar teatro y títeres, y llegó a tener una banda de blues 'La Trapecista. Tuvo muchos trabajos: vendió libros, zapatos y ropa, hizo encuestas, tejió, fue docente de teatro y guionista de humor para televisión. En 1989 empezó a escribir adaptaciones para teatro.
En 1993, año en que ganó un Premio Florencio Sánchez a la mejor actriz en el rubro infantil, publicó su primer libro, con el que logró cierta repercusión. Su gran paso fue en 1999, cuando, después de cuatro años sin publicar, su libro Detectives en el Parque Rodó tuvo un gran éxito en el público uruguayo.
En 2008, el autor Luis Martínez Cherro informó que el libro de Vel

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