Writer Antonio J. Ruiz Munuera will present his latest novel, 'Ojo de pez', winner of the 20th Nostromo Prize, this Wednesday, March 22 from 7:30 pm in the auditorium of the Museo del Teatro Romano de Cartagena.
The presentation ceremony will be chaired by the director general of Cultural Property, Maria Comas, and will be in charge of Antonio Parra, writer and literary critic, and one of the organizers of Cartagena Negra, as well as the author himself.
The Youth Publishing House, the Maritime Museum of Barcelona and the Friends of Nostromo Association, under the slogan "The Maritime Adventure", had the initiative to create a literary prize for narrations "with a first-class relationship with the world of the sea "And have been convening this award every year since.
AN ENVELOPED NOVEL IN CARTAGENA
This year's award-winning play, 'Eye of the Fish', belongs to the genre of the black novel.
It is a plot set in Cartagena in 1986, when a group of ecologists tried to stop some toxic spills of Portman.
The police story of this novel serves to frame a topic that remains very current, since it is linked to the preservation of the natural environment, and is located in Cartagena and La Union, and in the bay of Portman, a place that in Roman times Was known as Portus Magnus.
At this point of the Spanish Mediterranean coast an environmental disaster will provoke a strong movement to claim the environmental sector.
An activist is brutally murdered and the police track the perpetrator.
The plot of the work serves to denounce a situation based on real facts and without solution until recently, since work has already begun on the removal of the sterile remains.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena