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The largest literary jury in the world is preparing to fail the Mandarache and Hache Awards, organized by the Youth Council of the City of Cartagena in order to promote reading habits.

It is about six thousand young readers who from April 22 at 8 a.m. to April 25 at 8 o'clock will vote democratically the winners of these prizes through the website of the project www.premiomandarache.es.

Throughout the school year 2018/2019 thousands of young people, organized in reading committees, have read the finalist works and have had the opportunity to meet their authors.

Paco Roca, Rayco Pulido, Isaac Rosa and Mikko compete for the Mandarache 2019 Prize, in a special edition of graphic and comic novels.

For its part, the Hache Prize, the youth category of the project, is played between Gisela Pou, Catalina González Vilar and Fernando Lalana.

The seven authors have had the opportunity to visit Cartagena and present their works to thousands of participating readers and now they must submit to the will of this massive literary democracy.

The jury of the Mandarache Prize specifically consists of 3,177 young people between 15 and 30 years organized in 634 reading committees from more than twenty secondary schools and two universities.

In addition, for three years now, the Orillas Mandarache initiative was launched with the readers of Cartagena in Spain, one hundred and twenty students from Cartagena de Indias in Colombia and another one hundred and twenty from Cartagena in Chile read and vote this award: an international jury of young readers of Cartagenas of the world.

For its part, the Hache Award has 309 reading committees in which 1,854 adolescents between 12 and 14 years old participate.

After the closing of the voting, on April 26 at 11 am at the Consistorial Palace a group of young people from the IES Juan Sebastián Elcano will reveal the results to the press, together with the Councilor for Education, Culture and Youth, David Martínez Noguera.

The award-winning authors will return to Cartagena for the awards ceremony that will take place on May 8 at 11 am at the El Batel Auditorium and which is expected to be attended by 1,400 students.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena