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The largest literary jury in the world is preparing to fail the Mandarache and Hache 2018 Awards, organized by the Youth Council of the City of Cartagena in order to promote reading habits.
It is about six thousand young readers who from April 23 to 8 a.m. to April 26 at 8 o'clock will vote democratically the winners of these prizes through the project website www.premiomandarache.es.
Throughout the school year 2017/2018 thousands of young people, organized in reading committees, have read the finalist works and have had the opportunity to meet their authors.
Cristina Fernández Cubas, Julio Fajardo Herrero and Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez compete for the Mandarache Prize and Álvaro García Hernández, Daniel Hernández Chambers and Maite Carranza for the Hache Award, the project's youth literature category.
The six writers have had the opportunity to visit Cartagena and present their works to thousands of participating readers and now they must submit to the will of this massive literary democracy.
The jury of the Mandarache Prize specifically consists of 3,177 young people between 15 and 30 years organized into 550 reading committees from more than twenty secondary schools and two universities.
In addition, for two years now, the Orillas Mandarache initiative was launched together with the readers of Cartagena in Spain. Sixty students from Cartagena de Indias in Colombia and another 60 from Cartagena in Chile read and voted on this award: an international jury of young people readers of Cartagenas of the world.
For its part, the Hache Award has 362 reading committees in which 2,172 adolescents between 12 and 14 years old participate.
After the vote closes on April 27 at 11 am in the Consistorial Palace a group of young IES Carthago Spartaria will reveal the results to the press, along with the Councilor for Education, Culture and Youth, David Martínez Noguera.
The award-winning authors will return to Cartagena for the awards ceremony that will take place on May 9 at 11 am at the El Batel Auditorium and to which 1,400 students are expected to attend.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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