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The writer Maite Carranza, author of 'Caminos de libertad', has been in charge of inaugurating the cycle of Encounters with Author of the Mandarache Awards 2018 this Tuesday before 600 Secondary students who have packed the Paraninfo of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) ), and to those who have presented their book, one of the three finalists of the Hache Award, framed within the Mandarache Project.
The literata will continue presenting its work to hundreds of readers registered as a jury of the Hache prize, around 2,000 adolescents between 12 and 14 years old from more than 20 Institutes of Secondary Education of the municipality, during the same Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday 20 of December.
The cycle of meetings will run until April, when the young readers who make up the jury of these awards officially vote the results.
Carranza has been accompanied on her arrival in Cartagena and her meeting at the UPCT by the Councilor for Youth, Ricardo Segado, and the IES Mediterranean professor and member of the Promoter Group Eugenia Pérez.
"I am proud to highlight that, although there are still a few days to close the registrations, it seems that the participation figures show very positive data that speaks of about 1,000 more participants than last year", said the mayor, who announced that the final data will be known in January.
Mowed has advanced that "it is a historical record in this project."
The writer, for her part, highlighted her welcoming nature in Cartagena, before pointing out that she hopes to "leave this enriched experience" with the opinions, questions and attitude of the young people who will participate in the various meetings.
"Having the opportunity to debate with our public is a privilege", he explained, while underlining the "wonderful possibility" that is to know firsthand his own readers.
"I am available to readers", assured Carranza.
"Now the great protagonists are them", qualified, since "they will act as critics, which is what a reader should be".
His previous record, he confessed, was in a meeting with 450 people.
His work is part of a love story in which the protagonist, Alexia, is in love with someone who does not belong to her and, in turn, sees how another person falls in love with her in whom she is not interested in the same terms.
"That circumstance is like life itself, in love conflicts usually happens," explained the writer about the uncomfortable love triangle that forms.
However, this is only an incidental fact that embodies the true basis of the work, which according to the author "drags a discovery by the protagonist about her family's past, her own origins and what happened over the years dark, years of which we do not speak, in our country, "a" circumstance that encourages a summer and a series of clues "with which Alexia and her companions will undertake a search from a summer camp.
For Eugenia Pérez it has been "a pleasure to inaugurate a new edition of the award" in "a very hard year because the three works are of great quality".
He also expressed that "every year" the organizers of these awards face this challenge "with more enthusiasm".
The Mandarache Project is one of the most important reading education projects in the country and has the largest jury of a literary prize.
In addition, he received the National Prize for the Promotion of Reading in 2014.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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