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The Youth Literature Prize Hache continues its series of meetings with authors finalists. In the morning the shift has been to the writer Leon, David Fernandez Sifres, which has furnished the June 00 high school students in the auditorium of the UPCT His novel, The lighthouse of women absent (Edelvives, 2011), with whom he already won the Alandar 2011.
The author has been accompanied by the Councillor for Youth, Ruth Collado, and Professor of Colegio San Vicente de Paul, Ramona Sanchez.
A study trip to France in 2001, and the subsequent visit to the Normandy landing beaches are emerging as the context of this story of intrigue set in the present but with portraits of the past. And, Sifres wanted to reflect the tragedies World War II but always anchored in reality so that the reader can learn from them.
The plot revolves around five young people from different nationalities, and thus of differing cultures.
Their stories will be intertwined in the Gallic country around mysteries hidden lighthouse man whose secrets are hidden more than five decades.
Multiculturalism and tolerance are the pillars of a work that is rooted in a passion for travel, habit, which the writer Leon, helps you become a better person and open mind on what happens out there.
David Fernandez met Sifres commented that the existence of Mandarache Awards in 2009, when he first published the novel by opting for this award.
It also added that considers this reading project for young people is a great experience and can not understand why it has not been reproduced elsewhere yet.
This voracious reader, as the professor has called Ramona Sanchez, believes that schools today must not only encourage reading of classics, but also have to go for more commercial works that achieve a hook become more attractive to young.
That same evening at 17.00 hours make a more intimate encounter with readers Intercultural Centers for Children in Graduate School (c / Gisbert), while tomorrow will attend the College of St. Vincent de Paul, at 09.15 hours.
The writer is the second visit after Hache Prize in December activities with Lola Beccaria. Writers The third democratic opting this award, Alfredo Gómez Cerdá will travel to Cartagena in February to close the cycle with writers finalists.
Hache Youth Literature Prize was born in 2009 sponsored by his older brother, the Young Reader Prize Mandarache.
This year the Award Hache has reached its highest elevation of involvement with a jury of 1,542 readers adolescents 12 to 14 years from almost all secondary schools in the municipality.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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