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The cycle of meetings with the authors who are candidates for the Hache 2017 Awards continues this time with the author of 'The Tomb of Aurora K' (Edebé, 2014), Pedro Riera, who will present in different meetings to be held on days 1 and 2 March in Cartagena his novel to about a thousand adolescents, approximately, who are part of the jury of this award framed within the program Mandarache 2017.
The writer will begin his activities on Wednesday at 10:30 am in the Auditorium of the UPCT, where he will maintain the traditional meeting with 600 students of Secondary School.
It will continue in the afternoon with the meeting with boys and girls of the Intercultural Centers of the minor at 17:30 hours in the Graduate Schools (Gisbert Street) to finish at 19:00 hours in the Library of ARQUA with the members of the workshop Literary creation 'Libreta Mandarache'.
The next day, Thursday, March 2, will visit the IES Los Molinos at 9:00 am and finalize its program of activities with the meeting with 200 students that will take place at 11:00 am at the Fundación Caja Mediterráneo (Calle Mayor) .
Ramona Sánchez, member of the Promoter Group of the Mandarache Prize, school librarian and teacher of the San Vicente Paúl School, will present the author in these days.
Pedro Riera is the second of the final candidates for the Hache Prize to visit Cartagena, following the meetings with Mónica Rodríguez in January and before the visit in March of Luis Leante.
'THE TOMB OF AURORA K'
Pedro Riera's novel is, according to the same author, a story "full of intrigue and mystery, which speaks of how to overcome hatred between two communities that faced each other thirty years ago in a civil war."
In the work said war happens in an imaginary country, Turenia, although in fact it is a transcript of the conflict of the Balkans.
He spent two years in Bosnia between 1997 and 1999, where he had the opportunity to travel through all the republics of the former Yugoslavia and reflect on clashes between communities.
Subsequently, in the year 2000, after the NATO bombing, spent two months in Kosovo.
However, although his book is inspired by what happened in these wars, the writer plays a universal conflict
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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