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The Mandarache Project of Reading Education, promoted by the Youth Council of the City of Cartagena, is at its best.
After fifteen years of experience, thanks to the Mandarache Cartagena can be proud to have the largest literary jury in the world, the Mandarache and Hache Awards, composed of almost 6,000 young readers who have just chosen the winners of this fourteenth edition.
Thus, two veteran authors in their respective areas of creation have been crowned this year: Paco Roca has won the special edition of the Mandarache Prize dedicated in 2019 to the graphic novel, with his work The furrows of chance (Astiberri, 2013) ;
and Fernando Lalana has managed to win the Hache Award with his novel El comando Gorki (Edebé, 2016).
After an intense course of readings, debates and meetings with the author, the results of the votes, made through the website of the project from Monday, April 22 to Thursday, April 25, have been unveiled this morning at the Palace of Cartagena by a group of IES students Juan Sebastián Elcano, together with the Councilor for Youth, David Martínez Noguera, representing the more than nine hundred reading committees that made up the jury: 5,538 young people from three Cartagenas (Spain, Colombia and Chile).
"We are very happy for the high participation, 99% of readers have exercised their right to vote," said the councilor for Youth, "Cartagena can be proud of our young people, who make up one of the greatest literary juries that exist, we are an example in other municipalities. "
The Mandarache Prize has been failed by a total of 635 reading committees formed by 3,690 young people between 15 and 30 years old from twenty secondary schools in Cartagena and two universities, in addition to 240 students from Cartagena de Indias in Colombia and Cartagena in Chile, who have read and voted together with their colleagues in Spain through the international program of the project 'Orillas Mandarache'.
On the other hand, the Hache Prize for Juvenile Literature has been ruled by a jury composed of 308 reading committees in which 1,848 adolescents between 12 and 14 years old participated.
The Mandarache Reader Training Project, in which both prizes are framed, is a reading education strategy created by the City of Cartagena in 2004 and developed from the work of a promoter group that integrates the efforts of teaching centers, libraries , bookstores, publishers and associations of parents of students.
The initiative was distinguished with the National Prize for the Promotion of Reading in 2014 by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, and has been highlighted as one of the most innovative and successful readership training projects of Hispanic letters.
The two winning authors will collect two prizes in a gala to be held on May 8 at 11 am at the El Batel Auditorium in Cartagena and attended by 1,400 students.
Both prizes have a prize of 3,000 euros respectively and a reproduction of a statue of the artist Ángel Haro, made by the Special Employment Center PROLAM-ASTUS, whose activity has the main objective of inserting people with disabilities into the workplace.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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