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Their names have been publicly presented during the awards ceremony for the winning authors of this latest edition, Clara Sanchez and Alfredo Gómez Cerdá, held in El Batel and 1,400 who fled young readers
With the beating of the wings of a book tore at the Auditorium El Batel the awards gala to Mandarache Award finalists and Hache 2013, Clara Sanchez and Alfredo Gómez Cerdá, respectively, endowed with 3,000 euros and a reproduction of a of the artist's sculptures Ángel Haro.
The ceremony was chaired by the Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, accompanied by the Councillor for Culture, Maria del Rosario Montero, and the mayor of Youth, Ruth Collins.
In addition, El Batel has had for the occasion with an audience of emergency, 1,400 young readers who have been the first to know what writers are the finalists for the 2014 edition.
Thus, and in order to meet the expectations of different types of readers and integrate with established authors novel, the ninth edition Mandarache Award will have the following books and authors: The laws of the border (Mondadori, 2012) of the well-known writer Javier Cercas, Alma (Language of Cloth, 2011) the writer Javier Moreno Murcia, independent bet this year, and the murderer hypochondriac (Mondadori, 2012; DeBolsillo, 2013) by Juan Jacinto Muñoz Rengel.
For its part, the authors finalists for the sixth edition of the award Hache are: Elvira Lindo with Best Manolo (Seix Barral, 2012), Juan Ramón Barat with Lay off the dead (Carena Editors, 2012) and Pedro Ruiz García with The enigma of the scriptorium (SM, 2012), by Wide Angle Award finalist 2012.
Picking up the thread of the ceremony, the book beating in imitation leaves gulls, have been arrested on a bench, where two strangers who carried their bags to set sail to another destination, bitten by the curiosity have perused this work led them to a different world.
The importance of reading has cornered this ceremony, conceived by stage directors Nieves Pérez-Abad, Alfredo Angarita and Begoña Iriarte, and has been around a long time where the spectacle and fun have been noticeable.
In addition to prizes for writers and video projection, available at Youtube , which summarizes the work of this year, have also been given the so-called Complementary Awards involving young readers: Literary Criticism Prize, Prize of Illustration , Prize for fiction, video competition on reading, Prize for the best work of a team of teachers and Prize for the best work of promoting reading. And to round off this ceremony has had a guest artist, the Cartagena Kaze .
VALUE OF CONTACT WITH READERS
Before the start of the awards ceremony, the authors finalists, Clara Sanchez and Alfredo Gómez Cerdá have treated the media present at the event.
Thus, both stressed their satisfaction that is a prize awarded by readers with those who have had several meetings during your stay in Cartagena.
Clara Sanchez has referred to the reading festival, at a difficult time for the book, in his words. Paralysis I worry, I know the book will never end because people need to be told stories to recognize.
Regarding the level of reading in Spain, Cerda said that currently shows a positive phenomenon: it is the children who read and those who get caught older than a book. Reading No tradition in our country, explained the author , who argues that it is necessary to promote reading at an early age.
THOUSANDS OF JÃ "N YOUNG WINNERS decide PRA" XIMO YEAR
The Youth Council of Cartagena since 2004 promotes literary prizes and Hache Mandarache. Both are very special award because jurors are not made ​​by great literary figures, but thousands of young readers who each year participate in these democratic awards.
For example, in the edition that you just Mandarache Award have been 2,000 young people between 15 and 30 years in charge of failing the award, which has fallen to the writer Clara Sanchez, and 1,500 adolescents between 12 and 14 years have shaped the jury Hache prize, the mode of juvenile literature, with which the writer has won Alfredo Gómez Cerdá.
The finalists in each edition are selected by the Project Promoter Group, a body formed by assembly-secondary teachers, librarians, booksellers, Youth animators and technicians.
Thus, the six new writers visit Cartagena during the next school year to present his novels and defend their nominations in various meetings with participants readers.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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