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The writer David Lozano has ended this Wednesday, March 3, to the cycle of meetings with the finalists of the 2020 Hache Prize, in the UPCT Paraninfo, before six hundred high school students who have read his novel Unknown (Edebé).
The event was attended by the Councilor for Culture, David Martínez, the coordinator of the Mandarache Hache Project, Alberto Soler, the member of the promoter group, Beatriz Cuenca, and the writer David Lozano.
After the passage through Cartagena of the other two finalists, Llanos Campos and Eloy Moreno, the visit of Lozano marks the beginning of the reflection period of the popular jury of the Hache Prize.
The mayor of Culture, David Martínez, has indicated that a time of "nerves and deliberation starts in which two thousand young people between 12 and 14 years old will have to decide which book they will vote for as a better reading through the Mandarache Project website, between April 20 and 23, to choose the winner to be announced live on the 24th. "
The member of the promoter group, Beatriz Cuenca, has pointed out that since it arrived as a proposal it was seen as a clear novelist of 2020, for merging "love, intrigue and crime, with harassment, toxic relationships and the dangers of internet and networks social ", various topics that young people live today.
For his part, the writer, David Lozano, has described the young reader as an "avid reader in search of emotions and intense experiences, and that is why there is no censorship in the novels he presents, and that cover complicated topics such as suicide and the politically incorrect. "
He has also recognized the Hache Prize as a "key national reference in the literature."
VISIT OF DAVID LOZANO
The writer has begun his visit to Cartagena with a presentation of his book to 600 young students, to whom he has raised some issues related to the book such as the dangers of going to an appointment with a person known through the internet and the risks of social networks.
Through this meeting students have been able to get to know the author closely and raise their doubts about the novel.
In addition, the author will hold more meetings in the city, such as the one that will take place in the Intercultural Center of the Old Town with young people from these centers dependent on the Department of Social Services, and another with the members of the Mandarache Notebook literary creation workshop in the Library from the ARQVA Museum.
On Thursday, March 5, he will also visit the IES Los Molinos and finish his activities by meeting two hundred high school students in the auditorium of the Caja Mediterráneo Foundation.
This is the second time David Lozano Garbala visits Cartagena as a candidate for the Hache Prize, which he was a finalist in 2015 with his novel Heresy.
This Zaragoza writer of youth literature has won important prizes such as the Gran Angular in 2006 or the Edebé Prize in 2018, which he won precisely with Unknowns, the thriller with which he competes in the Hache Prize.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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