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Colombian writer Pilar Quintana has proven winner VIII Novel Prize La Mar de Letras, which each year awards the festival La Mar de Músicas.
This was announced today the Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero, who noted that the novel Quintana, rare dust collector, will be published for the first time in Spain by Ediciones El Cobre, distributed throughout Spain by the award.
The winning novel has been selected by a jury of writers Strawberry Rodrigo, Santiago Roncagliolo and Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Miriam Tey editor and literary critic Ignacio Echevarría.
Rare dust collectors takes place in Cali and get their name from the fans of the Skinny, a neighborhood girl who makes love often but without enthusiasm.
The novel touches on topics such as relationships, family and love, with a class society background and drug trafficking.
Pilar Quintana, born in Cali (Colombia) in 1972, graduated as a social community, worked as a television scriptwriter and creative in an advertising agency and, after traveling the world, he published his first novel, tickling in the language, 2003.
With his second novel takes the prize La Mar de Letras, a unique award, as highlighted Montero, uniqueness is the fact that informs authors that have never before been published in Spain and whose novels come in most cases, non-Western cultures, in line with the country's Special chosen to star in the festival La Mar de Músicas.
Quintana, who will be in Cartagena during the celebration of La Mar de Letras, July 21 will receive the award during a ceremony to be held in the morning at the Club de Regatas and afternoon and participate in chat rooms literary.
THE SEA OF LETTERS IN FOUR SECTIONS
The director of the festival La Mar de Músicas, Francisco Martin, presented the literary program of the festival, under the title La Mar de Letras, will be held from 13 to 22 July in four sections that go from the most academic to the idler and fun.
The first, on 13, 14 and 15 July, is called In the paths of Colombian letters and consists of three courses in literature on contemporary Colombian poetry and narrative.
Will in the morning in the Multipurpose room CIM.
The second section includes a storytelling workshop by the Colombian writer Consuelo Trivedi, showing the basic techniques used in this genre, mainly in the story and the short story.
It will be 19 and 20 July in the morning, at the Palais Molina.
The third section consists of a series of meetings with authors, on 20, 21 and 22 July with swords first Colombian literature, such as Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Santiago Gamboa, Piedad Bonnett, Rómulo Bustos and Pilar Quintana own winning Award this year, rising by the Cultural Hall of Caja Murcia.
The fourth and last section, with outdoor activities, including the 13 to 15 July a literary tour to Cartagena, with groups of 25 participants.
In addition, on July 19 Alexis Forero Colombian storytellers delight you with stories from the Cuesta de la Baroness and this year, poetry reading Voices returns to the moon, July 22 evening at the Old Cathedral, with the participation of Colombian writers will be in town for La Mar de Letras.
Francisco Martin stressed the participation, once again, writers and readers university summer course UPCT, staffed by two credits, the literary circles of the Hall of Poetry and the Bazaar of the letters of the Popular University Library Municipal and University of majors.
ALMOST FULL CAPACITY IN THE SEA OF MUSIC
Although it has shortened the number of days of the festival La Mar de Musicas, in its sixteenth edition and date, ticket sales not only going well, but it has doubled expectations, according to event director announced, Francisco Martin.
In this sense, we expect full house, mainly for the performances of the weekend, such as Macaco, Bombo Infierno Muchachito Patty Smith, who is now 70 percent of tickets sold.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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