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The first of the finalists for the award for Young Readers Mandarache 2011, organized by the Department of Youth of the City of Cartagena, Susana Fortes, continue on Wednesday, December 15, a meeting with 600 high school students from different schools in the municipality which discuss aspects of his novel Waiting for Robert Capa.
The meeting will be held after
11 am in the auditorium of the UPCT, Campus de la Muralla del Mar.
Previously, at 10.30 pm in the boardroom the writer will offer a press conference.
The novel, which won the Prix Fernando Lara, tells the story of love and war photographer Robert Capa and Gerda Taro in Paris in 1935 and Spain during the Civil War, and has attracted the attention of the prestigious American producer Michael Mann (author of films such as Heat, Ali and Collateral), which is already developing a script for this project.
Waiting for Robert Capa (Planeta, 2009), is set in Spain in the presence of the famous Hungarian-born American photojournalist who left a universal image of the war in instant death of the policeman, now a question.
Susana Fortes's work competes with other two novels, End of David Monteagudo, and I want to be punk Gopegui Bethlehem.
The three works are being read by almost 2,000 young people between 15 and 30 who make up the jury of the sixth Mandarache Prize, and in April, after the passage of all the authors in Cartagena, vote your favorite novel.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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