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Six writers, six books, two literary awards and more than three thousand readers are some numbers that characterize Mandarache successful project, designed to promote reading, since its inception in 2004, has gotten more than 14,000 citizens share readings .
Until 13 December will be open enrollment period as jury awards, the most democratic of Spanish literature.
Mandarache Award, which last year told a jury of two thousand young people between 15 and 30, will be contested this year by writers Susana Fortes with Waiting for Robert Capa (Planeta, 2009), a story of love and war in Paris during the Second World War, David Monteagudo, whose literary debut Fin (Cliff, 2009), has been a publishing phenomenon in 2010 with over 80,000 copies sold, and Bethlehem Gopegui with Desire to be punk (Anagram, 2009), recently awarded Dulce Chacón the Prize novel.
The three writers will visit Cartagena during the months of December and March 2011 to submit their novels and meet hundreds of readers who will decide in April which of the three wins.
Finalists also Hache Youth Literature Prize, awarded by more than 1,300 adolescents aged 12 to 14 years, will visit the port city.
This year will be played by Miguel Hache Sandín by Pania Record (Edebé, 2009), which opened on December 2 the program of meetings in Cartagena, Rosa Huertas Bad Moon (Edelvives, 2007), a special investigator to figure tribute Miguel Hernandez, and Eliacer Cansino, recently awarded the National Prize for Children's Literature for his novel Ok, Mr. Foster (Edelvives, 2009).
The books, which are provided free by the city of Cartagena, will be read during the school year by hundreds of readers who in April voted through the project website ( www.premiomandarache.es ) your favorite book.
The authors personally collect the award winners at a gala to be held on May 5, 2011 in the New Teatro Circo Cartagena.
Readers over 30 years may also read the novels nominated for the award Mandarache and meet their writers through book clubs +30 Mandarache organized at public libraries, the People's University and the University of Elder Affairs UPCT.
Mandarache is a project of reading promotion organized by the City of Cartagena through its Department of Youth and Culture with the support of the Directorate General of the Book of the Ministry of Culture, General Directorate of Promotion and Educational Innovation in the Region of Murcia, Cartagena Polytechnic University and the Foundation Cajamurcia.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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