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Colombian writer Pilar Quintana is the winner of the Prix VIII Novela "La Mar de Letras" which each year awards the festival La Mar de Musicas Cartagena.
Quintana has been selected because of its novel rare dust collectors, to be published by Ediciones El Cobre and distributed in Spain, thanks to the prize.
The winning novel was selected by a jury of writers Strawberry Rodrigo, Santiago Roncagliolo and Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Miriam Tey editor and literary critic Ignacio Echevarría.
Pilar Quintana will be first published in Spain, although it has always been acclaimed as one of Colombia's most important young writers in Latin America.
Elapses rare dust collectors in Cali and is named after the hobby of the Skinny, a neighborhood girl who makes love often but without enthusiasm.
This is a novel that combines the adventures of young characters Cali society in the midst of drug trafficking in the nineties.
The novel also touches on topics relevant to interpersonal relationships, family and love, while showing two opposite poles of a class society.
Pilar Quintana (Cali, Colombia, 1972) graduated from Liceo Benalcazar school in Cali, and then in Bogota, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana as a social community.
He worked as a television writer in Bogota and creative advertising agency in Cali, before beginning a series of trips that took her to South America, United States, India, Nepal and Australia.
Upon returning to Colombia in 2003, he published his first novel, with Editorial Planeta: Tickling tongue.
With a strong autobiographical, tells the story of a publicist Cali that sells everything for a family trip.
Another novel is "Conspiracy iguana", published by Editorial Norma in 2009, his third novel.
Was selected in 2007 to form part of Bogota 39, the year he published his second novel, which takes the prize The Sea Lyrics Dust Collectors rare.
As part of the festival La Mar de Músicas, was established in 2003, the International Novel Prize Diversity 'La Mar de Letras ", in collaboration with El Cobre Ediciones.
An international award that is unique to present authors have never before been published in Spain and whose reward is the publication of the winning novel by Ediciones El Cobre and distributed throughout the country.
La Mar de Letras is an award for its dedication recalls the mythical Formentor Prize, but its uniqueness is shown in that authors are not necessarily winners Europe.
From award-winning novels, in most cases, non-Western cultures, always in line with the chosen country's Special at La Mar de Músicas.
So have been winners of this event Sunny Singh (India) with the book's suicidal grandmother, Sergio Bizzio (Argentina) with Rabia, Ozlem Kumrular (Turkey) from Istanbul to Rhodes, Niq Mhlongo (South Africa) Dog eat dog, Hector Manjarrez (Mexico) with the damn paint Nedali Mohammed (Morocco) with prime beef.
Source: Mar de Músicas
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