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The Mandarache and Hache awards have lived this morning, Wednesday, May 9, its most critical moment.
El Batel Auditorium has hosted the awards ceremony for the participants in the different categories of the literary contest.
In this edition, the Mandarache and Hache awards have fallen to the author Cristina Fernández Cubas and the writer Álvaro García Hernández, respectively.
In addition, during the gala the finalists of the next edition of the literary contest have been made public.
The gala has brought together more than 1400 schoolchildren who have packed the auditorium of El Batel Auditorium and have actively participated in the development of the gala through social networks, and have even made the hashtag #amorlibro a national trending topic.
School children have been received with electronic music that has animated the atmosphere and has left the spirits ready to enjoy the gala.
With the theatrical representation of the students of the Baccalaureate of Performing Arts of the IES Isaac Peral, has started the youth literary event.
The winners of this edition of the contest, Cristina Fernández Cubas, for her novel 'La habitación de Nona' and Álvaro García Hernández, for their work 'León Kamikaze' have collected two awards from the hand of the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón.
The award of both prizes amounted to 3000 euros and a reproduction of a statue of the artist Ángel Haro, made by the Special Employment Center PROLAM-ASTUS.
In this edition, the prize for Best Illustration went to Alicia Pagán Ros, from IES Los Molinos;
in the category of Microrrelatos Contest, the young author of the IES Jiménez de la Espada, Blanca González Martínez, has been declared the winner.
The large audience has enjoyed theatrical performances, circus shows and even a parody of the famous television program 'First Dates', which has made clear the #amorlibro that is breathed throughout the development of the event.
Between acting and acting, the rest of the prizes have been awarded for the different activities that have been scheduled during the school year in the framework of the Mandarache literary contest.
Thus, Francisco Marín Pérez and Antonio Parra Sanz have collected the prize for the Best Work for the Promotion of Reading.
With this award we have recognized the important initiatives that Marín and Parra have carried out in the municipality with the aim of disseminating literature.
The mayor of Culture, Education and youth, David Martinez, has awarded the prize for the best work of a teaching team, which has fallen on the Library Team of IES Pedro Peñalver, coordinated by Elena Gisbert García.
For its part, the young author participating in the workshop 'Libreta Mandarache', Sara Madrid Jordán, Narval College, has won the award for Best Best Literary Criticism.
The audiovisual piece that has been raised with the prize of Literary Videocitas has been created by the students of the IES Ben Arabí, Donis Jorre Hof and Celia Alonso Peñalver, who have worked together with Mario Muñoz Álvaro, of IES San Isidoro.
The celebration of this gala has coincided with the commemoration of Europe Day, is celebrated on May 9, so during the event there has also been time to honor this important date.
The European Volunteers who work in the City of Cartagena and who have participated in Mandarache through the program Implicado2 have dedicated a few words to the audience.
MANDARACHE PRIZE FINALISTS 2019
This celebration of letters has also served to make known the finalists who will choose the prize in the next edition of the Mandarache and Hache awards, which will take place in 2019.
In addition, this new edition has a great novelty, for the first time, the three works selected as finalists of the contest are graphic novels.
The prize will be disputed for the play 'Los furos del azar' by Paco Roca;
'Lamia' by Rayco Pulido and the book 'Your future starts here' by the authors Isaac Rosa and Mikko.
In the Hache category, the finalist novels are 'Las lágrimas de Naraguyá', Catalina González Vilar, 'El comando Gorki' by the author Fernando Lalana and 'La joven de la medianoche' by the writer Gisela Pou.
The authors of these novels will meet with the young readers of the Mandarche program throughout the school year.
With this gala closes the cycle of activities that have happened throughout the year in different schools and in the municipality of Cartagena and opens the deadline for registration for the next edition, which will take place in 2019.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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