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The third and last of the meetings with author that take place under the Mandarache Prize has brought to the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) this Wednesday, March 15, the author of 'The immense minority', Miguel ngel Ortiz, finalist Of the Mandarache 2017 Prize, who has been with about 600 students of institutes of the municipality of Cartagena, participants in the literary contest.
The librarian and member of the Promoter Group, Carmen Usero, was in charge of presenting the event, where she recognized that the selection of finalist works is "arduous" and "requires many hours reading many candidates" but "since The beginning I bet for him "since the immense minority" is a story that, being close to the boys of ESO 4 and 1º of Bachillerato, I saw that it counted on timeless things "and that" it portrays the history of the boys of a neighborhood of The periphery of a big city at the beginning of the crisis. "
In turn, Usero has described the book as "very close to the lives of children, including those who do not read" and considered it "a good way to reach those young people."
Miguel ngel Ortiz thanked the Mandarache project for the opportunity to participate in the contest since he does not live in literature, but he combines writing with his work as a bookseller, reason why "sometimes it is difficult to take time to write" .
For the writer, "that the new voices give us an opportunity to be there and that our speech is more visible is already a prize".
The writer started his activities this Wednesday at 10.30 am in the Auditorium of the UPCT, where he has met the 600 students of Secondary, after having a meeting with the press in the Boardroom.
Already during the afternoon, at 18.00 hours in the ARQUA library, will participate in a special session with the 15 young authors of the workshop 'Libreta Mandarache' and at 19.30 hours, will hold a meeting open to the general public at the Cajamurcia Foundation.
In addition, this Thursday, March 16, at 9:00 am, will visit the San Isidoro IES and, to finish its program of activities, at 11:00 am you will meet another 200 students of Secondary in the Fundacin Caja Mediterrneo.
In total, the author will see about 1,200 people in the events scheduled for these 48 hours in Cartagena.
Ortiz has recognized that it is the first time that he faces "something so great", since, to date, he has had small presentations of his books.
He also participated in the Festival 'First Person', although "they were interventions of 10 minutes and with the lights off", before a capacity of 200 people, reason why "was very different".
The author recalled that the book market "has many competitors," mainly due to the lack of time and the arrival of the digital book.
"Reading is giving your time, and now we have it distributed among many things," although "now it seems that the sector is rebounding again."
In this sense, he stressed that "the book on paper is not going to be lost" because "what you get to read a book do not give you other things."
The argument of The immense minority is vertebrate by the neighborhood soccer as a tool to tell a story of the periphery.
Thus, the protagonists are adolescents in the Free Zone of Barcelona in 2010 with a history of poor neighborhood.
The play tells a story of defeat "but also of hope and above all of struggle".
From 'The immense minority', 2010 Mandarache winner Kiko Amat has said that it is "a breathtaking fresco of the adolescent experience of outskirts, capturing all its rage, brutality, occasional romanticism and humor."
He has described the work as "a great novel of Barcelona not pija" and Ortiz as "a worthy heir to the tradition of Mars, Candel, Ledesma, Casavella or Zann."
After the visit of Ortiz, recalled the responsibility of the program of leisure and participation of the Department of Culture, Alberto Soler, the Mandarache Prize enters the so-called 'deliberation period,' where the 5,000 young registered readers will value the finalist novels and decide The winner with his vote through the web of the project closes the cycle of meetings of the 2017 Mandarache Award.
Thus, according to Soler, the deadline will start on Monday, April 24, at 8:00 am, and will end on Thursday 27 at 20:00.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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