The writer Elvira Lindo and his famous Cartagena Manolito walking these days to find her young fans.
The excuse for his visit is Mandarache and Hache Award 2014, this course opens with Gafotas author, one of the candidates for the award, through traditional meetings with the author.
Thousands of teenagers are responsible, as usual, choosing the winner this April.
So, over the course these students, especially the more detached from the literature, they have to put the batteries and read the nominated books. Manolo Best is one of them, whose protagonist becomes hard to continue telling your story, now and as preteen.
Students from schools participating in the Prize Hache Mandarache and enjoy their new adventures in these months.
Although now it meet its writer. Dependent Intercultural Center of the Department of Social Services and the Los Molinos Institute received Wednesday and Thursday's visit Elvira Lindo, who also attended a meeting this morning with some areas in the auditorium of the UPCT (Sea Wall).
There, students could ask whatever they wanted about this book.
Now these kids back to their childhood, especially those who once read Manolito.
Not only the character has changed, young people who come to these meetings have also evolved and now wear piercings or dyed hair when before measuring just over half a meter, on Thursday told the author in his presentation which was also attended Councilwoman Youth, Ruth Collins.
Also confessed that he feels excited to have entered their lives in the sweetest moment, which is when they start to read.
CAN A UNIVERSITY MANOLITO?
Ten years have passed since Manolito is angry with his brother The Moron line with the scolding his mother Cata and adventures he undertakes with his father on the truck someday inherit (along with letters from the bank).
Now Elvira Lindo, after developing several projects in film and media, decides to portray the life of this humble man from Carabanchel.
Maybe we can see a more mature, independent and even attending like a good boy to classes at the University Manolito. I do not agree, but maybe in a couple of years I give to write another book of this character to know what happens with his life, explained Elvira Lindo.
Because the writer says Manolito teen rotudamente that as every parent would like to skip adolescence thought.
The pages of this book are filled with large doses of humor and a touch of melancholy.
Maybe that's one of the reasons why Manolito Four Eyes like both.
Although for the most important writer is to get children become fond of reading, a weight, which the Lindo itself, rests with the parents who have to influence their sons to grow through this art. Seem to have Forgot concluded.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena