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The eighth edition of the Prize Mandarache has started this morning in the first meeting with the Galician writer Manuel Rivas, had with the 600 students in the auditorium of the University of Cartagena.
In a ceremony prior to this meeting, the celebrated novelist has presented the work to the media finalist this year, all is silent (Alfaguara, 2010; Point Reading, 2011), the film version has just been brought to the screen by Director José Luis Rope.
Youth Councillor for the City of Cartagena, Ruth Collado, and the Mediterranean IES professor and member of the award sponsor, Antonio Parra, Manuel have accompanied during his press conference.
The councilor has highlighted the remarkable career of this writer, whose works include The carpenter's pencil (Spanish Critics Prize, Prize of the Belgian section of Amnesty International) or what I want, love (Prize for Fiction and Torrente Ballester National Fiction Prize).
For his part, Antonio Parra has emphasized that one of the major strengths of Rivas is l way presents their stories.
The affection that prints in his novels is also present in all is silence, denoted intensity alternating with the youthful character development and plot involving black dye the thread of this story set in Galicia.
On a slow and warm, Manuel Rivas has highlighted the good reception given to the open meeting held yesterday in Cajamurcia Foundation in Cartagena Pedreño House.
It has also placed emphasis on spontaneity and naturalness of this initiative by the Youth Council that seeks to promote reading among teenagers.
To this writer Galician, entertainment and knowledge have a place in his works.
And, in an allegorical sense, has referred to the complexity of the human being, which has been defined as a body of antonyms, reason why this literature is presented as the only outlet for expressing these human disputes. And, the DNA of the literary work is none other than freedom, and language that seeks to activate the senses, not impose ideas he concluded.
Rivas is the first visit of the three authors Cartagena competing this year for the democratic Mandarache Award, organized by the Department of Youth and Municipal Library Network of the City of Cartagena.
In February he will Clara Sanchez, a finalist for his novel What hides your name (Destiny, 2010; Booket, 2011) and Vicente Luis Mora in March, vying for his novel Alba Cromm
(Seix Barral, 2010).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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