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The presentation today of the finalists of the ninth Mandarache Awards and Hache, give the go-ahead to an initiative that each year adds up support among young readers for its dedication to encourage reading from a critical and also it is a fully democratic awards, as noted by the Youth Councillor, Ruth Collins, during the press conference, which was accompanied by Maria Jose Benitez and Nora Bravo, teachers of IES Salinas del Mar Menor and members project sponsor group.
Up to December 20 will be open enrollment period and Hache Mandarache Awards two very special awards since jurors are not made ​​by great literary figures but thousands of young readers Cartagena each year participate in these democratic awards.
Both awards make up the basic structure of this training project organized by the City readers of Cartagena since 2004 for which they have been more than 22,000 readers.
Only last year, 2,800 youth participated.
The charge of selecting the six finalists in each edition novels is the Promoter Group project, a citizen body formed by high school teachers, librarians, booksellers, Youth animators and technicians, and the selection of works tries to combine different books together, which can meet the expectations of different types of readers, and integrated turn to other more established authors sometimes are emerging out from the big market and big publishers promotions.
So Mandarache Prize, awarded by two thousand young people between 15 and 30 years, includes:
The laws of the border (Mondadori, 2012) of the famous writer Javier Cercas, Alma (Language of Cloth, 2011) the writer based in Madrid Murcia Javier Moreno, the independent proposal this year, and finally the murderer hypochondriac (Mondadori, 2012; DeBolsillo, 2013) by Juan Jacinto Muñoz Renge l.
Hache Prize, with a panel of nearly two thousand adolescents 12 to 14 years, celebrates its sixth edition and has as finalists: Best Manolo (Seix Barral, 2012) of the famous Elvira Lindo, the latest installment of the popular series Manolito Gafotas; Leave the dead alone (Carena Editors, 2012) the Valencian writer Juan Ramón Barat, well known in the region as Lorca lived for years, and finally, the novel The Riddle of the scriptorium (SM, 2012) of Peter Ruiz Garcia, which was a finalist Wide Angle Prize 2012.
Books are provided free by the City of Cartagena enrolled young readers, that in the April vote their favorite book through the project website www.premiomandarache.es
Readers over 30 years, but may not vote, you can also read the novels nominated for the award and be in Cajamurcia Mandarache their writers through book clubs organized at public libraries, the People's University, the University of Seniors UPCT and UNED library Cartagena, which incorporates the reading club San Isidoro Library Cultural Hall of Caja Mediterráneo.
Regional Section Guest Writer, which aims to promote current literature Murcia among young readers of Cartagena, this year for the first time will work poetic genre.'s Guest poet is Murcia with Cherry Vega poems I am a country (Editorial Raspabook, 2013).
Institutes and centers who wish may request 25 copies on loan and a meeting with the writer throughout the school year.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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