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Six writers, six books, two literary prizes and more than three thousand readers are some of the figures that characterize this successful training project readers that since its inception in 2004, has made ​​more than 18,000 citizens share their readings.
Youth Councillor, Ruth Collado, accompanied by teachers of IES San Isidoro and promoter group members, Fulgencia Martinez and Vicente Roca, was this morning the details of this new edition, from today until December 20, remain open enrollment period as jury awards, the most democratic of Spanish letters.
Registration can be done through the web www.premiomandarache.es as Collado noted, which has been renewed by the Data Processing Center of the City and has a completely new design, with more connection to social networks and adaptable to the latest media: computer, tablet and smartphone.
Mandarache Prize, which last year featured a panel of nearly two thousand young people between 15 and 30, will be held this year by the writers Clara Sanchez What hides your name (Destiny, 2010-Booket, 2011), with the who won the Nadal Prize in 2010, the writer and critic Vicente Luis Mora, with Alba Cromm (Seix Barral, 2010), a gripping thriller, and the author of hits such as The carpenter's pencil or the language of the butterflies, Manuel Rivas with All is quiet (Alfaguara, 2010-point reading, 2011), whose film adaptation has just been released by José Luis Rope.
The three writers visit Cartagena during the months of January, February and March to present his novels and meet hundreds of readers who will decide in April which of the three will win.
The winning authors personally collected the award at a gala to be held on May 7, 2013 in the Auditorium The Batel.
Finalists also Hache Youth Literature Prize, awarded by over 1,200 adolescents 12 to 14 years, visited the port city.
This year will be played by Lola Hache Beccaria with Zero (Planeta, 2011), which opened on Dec. 18 program meetings in Cartagena; Alfredo Gómez Cerdá's face the shadow (SM, 2011), a novel about a teenage prank with dire consequences, and David Fernandez Sifres by E l beacon of women absent (Edelvives, 2011), which received the Alandar in 2011.
The books, which are provided free of charge by the city of Cartagena, will be read during the school year for hundreds of readers in the April vote favorite book through the project website.
Readers over 30 years can also read novels Mandarache Award candidates and meet his writers through book clubs +30 Mandarache organized at public libraries, the People's University, the University of the Aging and the library UPCT of UNED-Cartagena.
Besides the six writers Contenders for officers, this new edition brings the creation of a new section: the Regional Guest Writer, which aims to promote the current literature of the Region of Murcia among young readers of Cartagena.
Each year Mandarache invite a writer to submit? Region out of competition-one of his meetings with readers in different institutes in Cartagena.
This time the guest will be the narrator and literary critic Antonio Parra Sanz, born in Madrid but settled for years in Cartagena.
The work chosen Opposites (Atlantis Editions, 2011), his third book of stories.
The institutes may wish to request 25 copies on loan and a meeting with the writer throughout the school year 2012-2013.
Another section is the returning guest Institute of another town, this time of the IES is Menárguez Antonio Costa of Los Alcazares, which will bring a group of 30 students to participate in meetings with author.
Mandarache is a training project organized by the City readers Cartagena through their departments of Youth, Culture and Social Care, with the support of the Directorate General for Cultural Industries and Policy Paper and the Ministry of Culture, the University Politécnica de Cartagena and Cajamurcia Foundation.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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