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The world's largest literary jury is made up of more than 5,000 young people organized in reading committees.

Throughout the week this jury, the Mandarache and Hache 2018 Literary Awards, has democratically voted the winners, which will be announced on Friday, April 27, in the Press Room of the Consistorial Palace, by a group of IES students Carthago Spartaria along with the Councilor for Education, Culture and Youth of the City of Cartagena, David Martínez Noguera.

The informative press conference will take place at 11:00 hours.

Three writers compete for the 2018 Mandarache Prize, and during the school year they have visited the municipality to defend their works and answer the questions of thousands of readers: Cristina Fernández Cubas, author of La habitación de Nona;

Julio Fajardo Herrero, by ordinary Assembly;

and Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez, for his novel El baile de Madame Kalalú.

The jury of Mandarache is made up of exactly 3,150 young people between 15 and 30 years old, of whom 120 belong to reading committees in Cartagena de Indias in Colombia and Cartagena in Chile.

For its part, the 2018 Hache Award also has three finalist writers: Maite Carranza, author of Caminos de libertad;

Daniel Hernández Chambers, for Show Me Eternity;

and Álvaro García Hernández with his novel León Kamikaze.

In this case, the jury is composed of 2,130 adolescents between 12 and 14 years old from more than twenty secondary schools in the municipality, who have also been able to meet the finalists during the school year.

The winning writers, who will receive respectively 3,000 euros and a reproduction of a statue of the artist Ángel Haro, will return to Cartagena to collect two awards from the Mayor of Cartagena at a gala that will take place on May 9 at 11 am in the Auditorium The Batel, with the assistance of 1,400 students.

The Mandarache and Hache Awards are the main axis of the Mandarache Project for the Training of Readers, an initiative promoted since 2004 by the Youth Council of the City of Cartagena, which was recognized by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport with the National Prize for the Promotion of the Reading in 2014.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena