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Lord Foster, an innocent glance at the postwar Award finalist Hache] | Seville Eliacer Cansino writer has filed three hundred high school students his work, which has been translated into Japanese and that brings readers to the last year partnership Franco |
Before an attentive audience of about three hundred high school students, the writer Seville Eliacer Cansino, accompanied by the Councillor for Youth, Ruth Collins, presented this morning in the auditorium of the Centro Cultural Ramón Alonso Ok Luzzy his novel, Mr. Foster (Edelvives, 2009), Hache F inally the Youth Literature Award, organized by the Youth Council of the City of Cartagena.
Cansino Eliacer's novel is a story of training, the author's words, which tells the evolution of a boy who lives trapped in a routine life in a small fishing village until it is Mr. Foster, a British photographer who awakens side makes it more critical and mature.
The book is set in the last years of Franco and reflects the reality of a closed society without freedom, and with some moral poverty.
However, the whole story i viewed from the perspective of an innocent child who knows no ideology but forging their opinions as they relate to people.
Thus, says the author, in a moment of the novel the protagonist is in a moral conflict and do not know whether to follow the advice of a policeman or a person who appreciated but that is frowned upon in the village.
To resolve the question of the protagonist, readers will have to dip into the pages of OK, Lord Foster, as we are doing students between 12 and 14 who make up the democratic Hache Jury Prize.
Experience measured before a jury composed by the young readers is a real novelty for the author Seville, ensuring feel really seduced by this formula, which takes place in Cartagena.
To Eliacer, today's young generation are more interesting of society and ensures that teens read more than before, but reading today meets a different function which met earlier in the century, as it has to compete with other media and the fascination with visual media that prevents young people find the quiet of the reading.
THE GLOBALIZATION "‰ n through S OF LITERATURE
Ok, Lord Foster is an example of globalization through the literature.
Cansino's work has been translated into Japanese and even the author has had the opportunity to meet young Japanese, which ensures that no large differences between young people from all over the world, the concerns of the youth and vision life and literature is the same is Spain and Japan.
Looking to his future projects, Eliacer acknowledges that a writer is constantly forging novel written in the future, sometimes working without realizing that it is working, for example at this meeting, the perceptions that I have, will be part of some work later.
Eliacer Cansino is the last of the authors finalists for this year's Award Hache visiting the city, prize for racing Rosa Huertas and Miguel Sandin, who have been here in December and January.
Hache Prize will fail, as Mandarache Award, by popular vote through the project website www.premiomandarache.es during the first week of April and the winning prize will be awarded in May.
MEETING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE THIS AFTERNOON
After the meeting with students at the Centro Cultural Ramón Alonso Luzzy, Eliacer Cansino will be at 17.00 hours with young Intercultural Center of The Graduate (c / Gisbert)
THE AUTHOR
Eliacer Cansino (Sevilla, 1954) studied philosophy at the Universities of Seville and Salamanca, and is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Department in the German Mateo IES San Juan de Aznalfarache.
He is the author of Landscape Book of Shadows (Tomares, 1988), The wonderful Mr Plot (Júcar, 1988), Caro's eyes (Toledo, 1991), Behind the eyes of the heron (Clearwater, 1993), Portraits opponents (Córdoba, 1991), I, Robinson Sánchez, having sunk (Toray, 1992; Everest, 1998), A traveler, a city (fund.As Luis Cernuda, 1995), The metamorphosis of Avellaneda (Huerta and Fierro, 1998) , The mystery Velázquez (Bruno, 1998), Cloud and children (Anaya, 2000), the umbrella poetic (Everest, 2003) and Pascal's wager (Alianza, 2004).
He has participated in several anthologies, mostly short fiction.
It has been translated into German, and his book The Mystery Velázquez is currently being translated into Japanese and Korean.
He has received numerous awards, both poetry (Poetry Juan Mountains in 1988, Ricardo Molina Prize in 1991), as stories (Premio Jaén in 1990, Emilio Hurtado Story in 1991), novella (City of Toledo in 1990) young adult novel (Infanta Elena International Award in 1992).
In 1997 he won the Lazarillo by Mystery Velazquez, a work that was also a finalist for the National Children's and Youth Literature in 1999.
This book was also chosen among the 100 best works of juvenile literature of the twentieth century by Sánchez Rupérez Germain Foundation.
Was represented as a play in the Alcazar of Seville in 1999.
He has participated in many seminars on narrative, literary, children's literature, reading promotion, and has given lectures, talks and courses in Spain and New York (at the Cervantes Institute in that city).
He also participates regularly in daily newspapers (is a columnist for Diario de Sevilla), and specialized journals in literature (Mercury, for example) and in children's literature.
THE BOOK
Ok, Mr. Foster (Edelvives, 2009).
Motherless, Perico lives with his father, a reclusive character sailor in the Umbrian town of Huelva.
His life is spent in the seemingly peaceful atmosphere, but deeply suffocating Francoist society.
Something starts to change when Mr. Foster, a British photographer who has come there hired by the mining company Rio Tinto, and Ismael, a tanner of skins everyone suspicious.
They will help to raise their critical consciousness, however, his ingenuity will be involved in a smuggling adventure that will change the course of its existence.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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