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The author is a candidate for his novel, The elephant bird sanctuary, an adventure novel in the heart of the Congolese jungle |
600 high school students have benefited from Heinz Delam, which opens the season of meetings Hache Award 2015. Candidate for his work, The Elephant Bird Sanctuary, won the Alandar in 2011 and this year competes for the democratic prize.
The author has been accompanied by the Councillor for Youth, Ruth Collins and Laura Guitérrez, professor of IES Ben Arabi and member of the Promoter Group Mandarache Project.
Delam presents his book to the school of Cartagena.
Despite having twenty years starring in meetings organized by publishers, I still surprised by this project where young students are the award jury: I met Mandarache a bit before they nominate me and could not believe there was something so good.
We are more accustomed to editorial meetings, more commercial, explained the author, Heinz Delam.
Supports young people are relentless judges, w hen they say something they do from the sincerity and I try to be like them, sincere, explained the author, accustomed to encounters with young readers.
La Hache Award nominee novel, The Elephant and Bird Sanctuary Alandar won in 2011, and his argument has an autobiographical tint, so says Heinz Delam: My life has had many adventures, so this novel is autobiographical but not the all.
I am driven by the thrill of my characters and this way I try to trasladárselo the reader.
As for the prize is not afraid to win, the fact giving me the opportunity to participate is already important to me, expressed the author. I've moved a lot with other books, in fact being a writer is inheritance reader.
One of my biggest obsessions when I write a book is to spread the joy of reading, unveiled Delam.
Furthermore, the writer was accompanied by the Councillor for Youth, Ruth Collins and Professor of IES Ben Arabi and member of the Promoter Group Mandarache Project, Laura Gutiérrez has admitted that Heinz Delam has a good chance to win.
It will be a success.
PÃ BIRD SANCTUARY OF ELEPHANT
The plot of the novel revolves around Natalia, a city girl who accompanies her father to the jungles of the Congo, where he met Eloko, a boy from a local tribe who is tormented by a secret.
A string of misfortunes leave both young men at the mercy of the great forest and under a threat of some animal.
They only way to survive is to solve the mystery of an expedition whose members disappeared amid mysterious circumstances.
Except the mysterious dyes and dramatic scenes, a book inspired by the author's life is. Heinz Delam had adventurous experiences as a child has traveled extensively, until the Belgian Congo, because of their parents' work.
He spent his teenage years surrounded by the mysteries of the African bush.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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