Milena Busquets, the second of the finalists of the 12th edition of the Mandarache Prize to visit Cartagena, whose cycle began with Juan Pablo Villalobos in January and end with the visit of Miguel Angel Ortiz in March, will be in the city on 15 and 16 February, to participate in various meetings with students who are members of the jury of this event, composed of 5,000 young readers.
So the councilman of Youth, Ricardo Segado, will appear this Wednesday February 15 together with the finalist writer of the contest that promotes the Culture and Youth Area of ​​the City of Cartagena, which concur with his work 'Also this will pass' (Anagram, 2015 ).
The information wheel, prior to the meeting, will take place in the Meeting Room of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) at 10:00 hours, and half an hour later, at 10:30 hours, the traditional meeting with 600 High school students at the UPCT auditorium.
This meeting of the Auditorium will be broadcast in streaming thanks to the Center for Production of Digital Content of the UPCT.
In the afternoon activities will continue.
At 18:00 hours, in the Library of the ARQUA Museum, Milena Busquets will give a masterful session of writing and literary creation to the 15 boys and girls of the Libreta Mandarache workshop, and will finish the first of the two days that will happen in the port city With a meeting open to the general public at 7:30 pm at the Cajamurcia Foundation.
On Thursday 16 the author will hold two more meetings: the first at 9:00 am at IES Isaac Peral, and the second at 11:00 am at the Caja Mediterráneo Foundation with 200 high school students.
'This too will happen' is a novel that has devastated international fairs and in which the writer transforms into literature the illness and death of her mother, the mythical publisher of Lumen Esther Tusquets, died in 2012.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena