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The most democratic prizes of Spanish letters already have winners.
The young Miguel Angel Ortiz has proclaimed himself the winner of the twelfth edition of the Mandarache Prize with his novel 'The immense minority' (Literature Random House, 2015), being the most voted by the 2,763 young readers between 15 and 30 years who composed the judge.
For his part, the writer Luis Leante, who with his novel 'Flee without looking back' (Edebé, 2016) has conquered the jury of the ninth edition of the Hache Prize composed of 1,662 readers between 12 and 14 years, has achieved a milestone in History of this reading training project: being the first writer to succeed in both categories since in 2009 he achieved the Mandarache for 'Mira si yo teréré'.
The results of the voting, carried out this week through the web premiomandarache.es, have been unveiled to the public and the press by a group of students of the IES San Isidoro representing the total of 754 reading committees that comprised the jury of these awards , From twenty institutes of Cartagena, three universities and other educational centers, as well as young people registered for free, in addition to 120 students from Cartagena de Indias in Colombia and from Cartagena de Chile, who have participated together with the students of Spain through Of the pilot initiative Orillas Mandarache, forming for the first time an international jury.
Since December, 4,425 young readers, one of the largest literary jurors in the world, have read and commented on the novels provided to them free of charge by the City of Cartagena and have been able to meet the finalists of each prize, talk to them, ask and share their Impressions before the time of voting, in which 98% have exercised their right to vote.
The councilman of Youth, Ricardo Segado, has shown his admiration for the Mandarache project, expressing that "the municipality of Cartagena must be proud of these young people who form one of the largest literary jurors that exist and also proud of the Mandarache project, whose national repercussion And international in the field of books and reading has made our city an example to imitate and is singled out by many as one of the most innovative and successful "
The Mandarache Project, in which both prizes are framed, is a reader training strategy created by the Council of Youth of the City Council of Cartagena in 2004 and developed from the work of a promoter group that integrates the efforts of schools, Libraries, bookstores, publishers, parents' associations, animators and associations.
The initiative was honored with the National Prize for the Promotion of Reading 2014 by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, and is obtaining excellent results in its objective of training readers.
In the words of Segado, "the Mandarache project demonstrates that the most desirable thing for the progress of our society is that culture and education always go hand in hand."
It is expected that the winning authors will return to the port city on May 11 to collect their awards from the mayor and the deputy mayor of Cartagena in a ceremony at the Auditorium-Conference Center El Batel, where also, will be presented finalist titles Prize Mandarache / Hache 2018. Both prizes have an economic endowment of 3,000 euros respectively and both reproductions of a sculpture by the artist Ángel Haro.
These reproductions have been carried out by the Special Employment Center PROLAM-ASTUS, whose activity has the main objective of inserting labor for people with disabilities.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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