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Javier Cercas, Rosa Montero and Clara Sanchez return to Cartagena in December to launch a special edition filled with activities and writers.
The authors Fernando León de Aranoa, Rosa Regas and Alicia Giménez Bartlett, will vie Mandarache Award 2015
Mandarache Young Reader Prize is ten years old and will celebrate with a special edition in which, in addition to meetings with the finalists writers Mandarache and Hache Awards, there will be activities and visits from authors who have participated in previous editions of this project just received the National Award for the Promotion of Reading.
The charge of publicizing the authors and scheduled activities for this event were the mayors of Youth and Culture, Ruth Collins and Rosario Montero, respectively, together with the teachers of IES La Palma Spartaria Carthage and members of the promoter group of the Prize Antonia Hernandez and Francisca Fernández.
Until December 19 will it open enrollment period as a reader-judges of these literary awards by thousands of young readers coming mostly from schools in Cartagena, that this year, as new, the University is incorporated Murcia through the University Center ISEN, so there will be loans for students participating as explained Collado.
As for the commemoration of the tenth edition of the prize, for which they have been more than 26,000 readers since its inception, Rosario Montero has a preview.
They will start with two special encounters with winning writers other issues, before the finalists meetings with writers who visit Cartagena between January and March 2015.
The first will be on December 12 with the last winner Mandarache, Javier Cercas, who wanted to make a stop in the city for the promotion of his new novel, exclusively for presentation at a meeting with 600 high school students.
The following week, on 16 and 17 December, the writer Rosa Montero and Clara Sanchez, the only two women who have won the award Mandarache will be in Cartagena to talk about his readings of youth and love of books.
Throughout the school year shall be presented in detail other activities planned for the tenth anniversary, including the Councillor for Culture has highlighted a special edition of the Book Week Cartagena AbriRLibro in collaboration with public libraries and with the participation of writers winners and finalists from previous editions Mandarache Award;
an exhibition on the Mandarache Project in collaboration with the Regional Library of Murcia;
preparing a report on youth reading habits in collaboration with the University of Murcia and the presentation of Mandarache Project in Madrid Book Fair.
AUTHORS IN SEARCH OF AWARD
In January, the program of meetings with writers and candidates Mandarache Hache Awards 2015 opens Thus, the Prize will Mandarache Rosa for his novel Rega s Chamber Music (Seix Barral, 2013; Booket, 2014).;
with film director and screenwriter Fernando León de Aranoa for his storybook Here lie Dragons (Seix Barral, 2013; Booket, 2014);
and finally, the writer Alicia Giménez Bartlett, for his novel Nobody wants (Destiny, 2013; Booket, 2014).
The Hache Award, which celebrates its seventh year, counted as finalists by Heinz Delam Elephant Bird Sanctuary (Edelvives, 2011); David Lozano Garbala for Heresy (SM, 2013);
and finally, written in tandem by the authors Javier Ruescas and Francesc Miralles, Beats (SM, 2013) novel.
In addition, secondary school students will meet the Regional Writer Guest of this edition, the author settled in Cartagena Juan de Dios Garcia for his poems he Arctic (Germania, 2014).
Remember that the finalists of each edition are selected by the Promoter Group of the project, a citizen body assembly character formed by high school teachers, librarians, booksellers, animators and technicians Youth, and books are provided free of charge by the City of Cartagena enrolled young readers, who in April voted on their favorite book through the project website www.premiomandarache.es
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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