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A new generation of young readers has enjoyed great Mandarache awards gala and Hache which was held this morning.
In it, about 1,400 kids from different schools have been the lucky ones who have filled the seats of the Auditorium and Convention Center The Batel while remaining expectantly and smiled at the shows, performances and skits that were ready to enliven the event.
In addition to these young people, the protagonists have been Alejandro Palomas, who won the Award Mandarache thanks to his novel A mother;
and Patricia Garcia-Rojo, winner of the Award Hache through Lobo.
The path of vengeance.
Both authors have both highlighted his enthusiasm for this recognition and the system only choice that counts this event, in which readers are those who choose according to their preferences after reading all the books finalists.
Nor they have wanted to miss this event the mayor of Cartagena, Jose Lopez, and Deputy Mayor, Ana Belén Castejon, who were responsible for awarding the two big awards gala, which consist of a prize of 3,000 euros and a reproduction of a sculpture artist Angel Haro that has been made by the workshop of the Special Employment Centre dePROLAM-Astus.
Among the audience was also the Councillor for Youth, Ricardo Segado;
the mayor of Culture, David Martinez;
and the rector of the Polytechnic University, Alejandro Diaz.
NEWS
One of the strengths of the gala was the announcement of the innovations that arise for the next edition.
On the one hand, participants will also readers from the other side, from the field of writing, through the workshop Mandarache book, organized in collaboration with the National Museum of Archaeology (ARQUA).
The sessions of this writing seminar be spent in the museum library and including a group of 15 young people will receive master classes of the six finalists writers.
Mandarache book will be directed and taught by the poet and editor cartagenero Balduqe Jose Alcaraz.
The other big news ahead of 2017 leads to these events to cross the pond and landed in the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean.
Through the shores Mandarache initiative, a group of 60 students from Cartagena de Indias in Colombia and as many of Cartagena de Chile will participate in the next edition reading by young people of Cartagena in Spain and democratically as they voting for the winning book .
Thus, the Mandarache will be awarded for the first time by international unjurado young readers Cartagenas the world.
During the course of the gala were viewing two videos of the kids in both countries and has recorded one live to send them back.
FINALISTS 2017
They have released the names of the authors who will star next readings of thousands of young people in a selection of works that tries to combine different books together to meet expectations of different types year.
2017 Prize opt to Mandarache novels this too shall pass (Anagram, 2014) Milena Busquets;
The vast minority (Lit. Random House, 2014), Miguel Angel Ortiz of;
and I sell a dog (Anagram, 2015), the mexicanoJuan Pablo Villalobos.
Meanwhile, the Hache Award 2017 features a finalist already known by the project participants, Luis Leante, winner in 2009 Mandarache Award See if I'll love, this time presents Flee without looking back (Edebé, 2016);
also juvenile form of this award has Monica Rodriguez for The orange who died of sadness (Edelvives, 2013) and The Tomb of Aurora K. (Edebé, 2014) of Pedro Riera.
OTHER AWARDS
Besides the awards to writers, they have given themselves called Supplemental Awards, which are awarded to young participants in the project through different modalities.
The results were as follows:
Illustration Award: Alicia García Aniorte IES San Isidoro, based in The Secret of the galleon
Competition Microrrelatos: Lucía Fernández loamy IES Isaac Peral
Prize for the best work of promoting reading: Library Teleo Santa Ana and neighborhood Belones Library
Videocitas literary contest: Esteban Marin and Marina del Toro Fuensanta Martinez IES Los Molinos
Prize for literary criticism: M.ª del Carmen Romero Toribio IES Salinas del Mar Menor, for his criticism of the empire of Yegorov
Prize for the best work of a teaching team: Team Library of IES Los Molinos
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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