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The Venezuelan writer Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez visits Cartagena on January 17 and 18 to present his novel El baile de Madame Kalalú (Siruela, 2016) to thousands of readers participating in an edition in which the Mandarache Project confirms a record of participation, approaching the six thousand registered readers.
Méndez Guédez will keep a total of five matches.
On Tuesday 17 will begin activities with a press conference at 10:00 hours in the Board Room of the UPCT which will follow the traditional meeting with six hundred high school students at 10:30 am in the Auditorium.
This meeting will be broadcast in streaming over the Internet thanks to the collaboration of the Digital Content Production Center of the UPCT.
In the afternoon that same day you will visit the ARQUA Museum Library to meet the young members of the literary creation workshop Librera Mandarache at 5:00 p.m. and, later, at 7:30 p.m., you will have a meeting with university students and reading clubs, open to the general public at the Cajamurcia Foundation.
The next day at 9:00 am, he will visit the IES San Isidoro to finish his program of activities with a meeting with two hundred high school students at 11:00 in the Fundación Caja Mediterráneo.
The author of The Dance of Madame Kalalú, the hilarious novel with which he is a candidate for Mandarache, is the first of the three finalists of this edition to visit Cartagena, ahead of his competitors the writers Julio Fajardo Herrero and Cristina Fernández Cubas, who will visit the port city in the months of February and April respectively.
ALMOST 6,000 READERS
After the closing of the inscriptions, the final figures of participation in the thirteenth edition of the Mandarache Project show very successful data because we have the largest number of entries in the history of the project.
A total of 5,739 people have enrolled in any of the three modalities of the program.
In the Mandarache Prize, awarded by a jury made up of young people between 15 and 30 years old, 3,177 readers have been registered and organized into 550 reading committees.
For its part, the Hache Award, granted by adolescents from 12 to 14 years old, has 2,172 registered readers organized in 362 reading committees.
Finally, 390 readers over 30 years of age (without the right to vote) have enrolled in one of the reading clubs from the municipal libraries, the Popular University, the Caja Mediterráneo Foundation, the neighborhood libraries and the University of the UPCT .
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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