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The Black Literary, Police and Mystery Days 'Cartagena Negra' will reach its third edition with various novelties, among which the I Prize of Novel Cartagena Negra or the edition of the Anthology of Reports Black Cartagena.
This year the presence of law enforcement forces, the treatment of evil and the black genre produced along the Mediterranean will be the three main thematic lines around which will turn the festival that has already made a place of renown in the national scene .
The delegate councilor of Culture, David Martinez, and Francisco Marín, representing the promoter group that organizes this event, presented this Friday the third edition of 'Cartagena Negra', to be held from September 5 to 9 in the Auditorium And Palacio de Congresos El Batel mainly.
A total of 30 authors from all points of the national geography, such as Tenerife, Galicia, San Sebastian, Bilbao or Castellón, will visit Cartagena and participate in the many activities scheduled as presentations, writing workshops or round tables, among Others.
There will also be space for music and the world of comics or for the audiovisual in the form of short films.
It will also seek a greater involvement of the public by organizing activities as attractive as possible as a Workshop of Writing Police provided by the writer Clara Peñalver, the Contest of Black Microrrelates live 'Leave here your hat', whose requisite to Being able to participate will consist of attending this complement, which has a prize for the winner of a dinner for two and a hotel night in Los Habaneros - or 'Menudos detectives menudos', designed for the little ones.
The nine meetings of reading clubs, the 'Aperitivos negros' or the inauguration of the festival will also have relevance, which this year will be attended by Esteban Navarro, a national police and front-line writer.
But if something especially stands out in this edition is undoubtedly the First Prize of Novel Cartagena Black, whose first winner has been Rafa Melero with his book 'Ful'.
Rosa Rivas and Sabine Hofman are finalists;
Aro Sáinz de la Maza;
Vicente Garrido and Nieves Abarca;
And Santiago Álvarez.
It is noteworthy that this award is delivered ex officio by the festival organization, ie the jury chooses various novels released that year and values ​​them without the need for anyone to submit a nomination.
The delivery will be made at the closing session of this third edition of 'Cartagena Negra', to be held on 9 September at 9:00 pm in the cafeteria Mr. Witt and, although not associated with an economic endowment, from the Organization of the event has remained that will be a great surprise.
"It's a real pass," said Francisco Marin.
On the other hand is the edition of the Anthology of Stories Cartagena Negra, which includes 23 texts by authors from a national level and a sample of regional authors who have been going through the festival on previous occasions.
Its cost will be 10 euros.
All activities and meetings, whose complete information and schedules can be consulted in the document attached to this note or downloading the complete program through the link, are free of charge except for the Police Writing Workshop that will be given by Clara Peñalver (which will be priced at 30 euros ) And the activity 'Menudos detectives menudos', for which it will be necessary to pay 3 euros and the children will receive a gift.
"Every year we wanted to support the festival a little more and put it in the budget," said David Martinez, who has also advocated continuing to do so from the City Hall "to keep growing."
Francisco Marín said that this festival already "has a tremendous national level" and stressed that the guests highlight the attention of the organization with them and that, more and more, "authors and publishers are asking to come."
As explained by the representative of the promoter group, this year intends with the planned activities "to bring the most possible to the public".
He also stressed that the main objective is to promote the city in this cultural circuit.
"The name of Cartagena has to be above everything," he remarked.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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