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The gala where the awards will be presented on May 9 at the Auditorium Municipal El Batel de Cartagena |
The thirteenth edition of the Mandarache Project of Reader Training promoted by the Department of Youth of the City of Cartagena already has winners: the veteran Cristina Fernández Cubas has won the Mandarache with her book of stories La habitación de Nona (Tusquets, 2015), and Álvaro García Hernández has won the Hache Award for his novel León Kamikaze (SM, 2016).
The failure of both awards has been made by what is possibly the largest literary jury in the world: more than five thousand young readers of three Cartagenas (Spain, Colombia and Chile).
After an intense course of readings, meetings with author and debates, the results of the votes, made through the website of the project, were unveiled this morning, April 27, at the Palace of Cartagena by a group of students from the IES Carthago Spartaria, together with the Councilor for Education, Culture and Youth, David Martínez, representing the more than nine hundred reading committees (5,280 young people) that made up the jury.
Finally, the mayor David Martínez before giving voice to the students, wanted to point out that the municipality of Cartagena should feel proud of these young people, who make up one of the largest literary juries that exist, and proud also of the Mandarache Project, whose repercussion national and international in the field of books and reading has made our city an example to imitate, and is pointed by many as one of the most innovative and successful readers training programs.
The Mandarache Project demonstrates that the most desirable thing for the progress of our society is that culture and education always go hand in hand.
The Mandarache Prize has been failed by a total of 546 reading committees formed by 3,150 young people between 15 and 30 years old from twenty secondary schools in Cartagena and three universities, as well as 120 students from Cartagena de Indias in Colombia and Cartagena in Chile, who have read and voted together with their colleagues in Spain through the international program of the project 'Orillas Mandarache'.
On the other hand, the Hache Prize for Juvenile Literature was decided by a jury composed of 355 reading committees in which 2,130 adolescents between 12 and 14 years old participated.
The Mandarache Reader Training Project, in which both prizes are framed, is a reading education strategy created by the City Council of Cartagena in 2004 and developed from the work of a promoter group that integrates the efforts of teaching centers, libraries , bookstores, publishers and associations of parents of students.
The initiative was distinguished with the National Prize for the Promotion of Reading in 2014 by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, and has stood out as one of the most innovative and successful readership training projects of Hispanic letters.
The two winning authors will collect two awards in a gala to be held on May 9 at 11:00 in the El Batel Municipal Auditorium in Cartagena and attended by 1,400 students.
Both prizes have a prize of 3,000 euros respectively and a reproduction of a statue of the artist Ángel Haro, made by the Special Employment Center PROLAM-ASTUS, whose activity has the main objective of inserting people with disabilities into the workplace.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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