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In addition, the finalist titles have been unveiled for next year |
The Auditorium and Congress Center El Batel de Cartagena has been the setting for the great festival of literature in the port city.
As every year, the awards ceremony of the XII edition of the Mandarache Prize has been celebrated, the most important moment of the year in this contest in which the jury is the readers themselves, who in a democratic way grant with their votes the recognition To the winning works.
In this multitudinous event that closes the contest of 2017, 1,400 students and readers of the more than 5,000 who have participated as a jury have been present the winning authors of this year's Mandarache and Hache Prize - Miguel Ángel Ortiz and Luis Leante for 'La Immense minority 'and' Flee without looking back ', respectively - as well as a representation of the municipal executive headed by the mayor, José López, and the deputy mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, and which also included the councilor of Youth, Ricardo Segado, and the Councilor for Culture, David Martínez.
Also was the rector of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Alejandro Díaz Morcillo.
A PARTY FOR THE LITERATURE
Music and animation have enlivened the moments before the gala, with the performance, among others, of the local hip hop duo Black & White, accompanied by a DJ.
The ceremony was presented by the three members of the company Ayeklauwn, who in addition to conducting the act have offered a lyrical show that has touched almost all the sticks and scenic disciplines, with performances, theater, sketches and that has also included the song.
Several audio-visuals about the Mandarache project and its trajectory, as well as a summary of this year's edition have completed the event.
AWARDS
Before a public delivered, which has vibrated with each performance, have been awarded prizes of each of the categories.
Thus, Lucía Maita-González of IES Isaac Peral has been awarded with the recognition of the best illustration for her drawing inspired by the book 'The orange that died of sadness';
In the contest of micro-stories 'Laughter', by Mireya Gómez (Free Committee) has won the trophy;
As the best work to promote reading has been recognized at the library La Montaña Mágica, which is the poet Vicente Velasco, who has launched a literary prize funded out of his own pocket,
The best literary criticism has been the one of Virginia Tempered of IES Las Salinas of the Mar Menor, with its commentary on another of the finalist works, 'I sell you a dog';
Carmen Idilia Torres and Raquel Quevedo from IES Las Salinas del Mar Menor were the winners in the section of literary videotapes;
And the IES Carthago Spartaria of La Palma received the prize for the best work of a teaching team.
But the great protagonists of the day were the two graced with the main prizes, the Hache and the Mandarache.
An excited Luis Leante collected the award of the first of these two categories while thanking the work of the whole team that makes this project possible.
For his part, Miguel Ortiz claimed the importance of literature, right at a time when it is in danger of disappearing from the Bachillerato agenda.
A VANGUARDISTA PROJECT
Both authors have praised these awards in which more than 40,000 people have participated since its inception.
"You feel part of a big family and that's the biggest prize there is, nothing can compare to that," Ortiz said, who has emphasized that readers who have jury "have read books with love."
The winner of the Mandarache Prize leaves with "the satisfaction that the book has hooked them" and "feel" that he has done the job well "because he has caught up with them", referring to the young people who have participated.
In this regard, he considered that the fact that the protagonists are adolescents, like them, has made them identify more with his book.
"They are characters like they could be themselves," he said.
Receiving this recognition encourages him to continue writing, he assured.
Ortiz said he was very happy to take the Mandarache Prize, a project like "there would have to be one in every city of Spain", in his opinion.
"One writes so that a dialogue is created and the one that is created here is incredible, it is great," he added.
In the same line, the other winner, Luis Leante, said that "now that there is so much talk about the promotion of reading, they should look a little here because there is no better plan to promote reading than what is happening Here, I think it would have to serve as a model because there are few things like this. "
Leante believes it should be done "in other places and set the example."
On the other hand, he showed some disbelief at his success.
"You know what is happening but you do not believe it," he commented.
"The youth public still has a spontaneity and sincerity that adults do not have," he explained.
He also pointed out the connection between his work and the readers who voted for him as winner of the Hache Prize that "the plot has things that, even if they are fiction, are close to what can be today the life of young people."
THE TITLES ELECTED FOR THE NEXT EDITION
In the gala have also unveiled the six finalists selected for the 2018 edition, which are, for the Hache Prize, 'Roads of freedom', by Maite Carranza;
'León kamikaze', by Álvaro García;
And 'Show me the eternity', by Daniel Hernández;
While for the Mandarache will be 'The room of Nona', by Cristina Fernández, 'The dance of Madame Kalalu', by Juan Carlos Méndez;
And, finally, 'Ordinary Assembly', by Julio Fajardo.
Another highlight of the gala is that the Mandarache Project has been 'Trending Topic' in the morning thanks to the tweets of the participants and the people present at the event, who have transmitted the ceremony through social networks under the '#MandaracheHache' tag.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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