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Film director Fernando Leon de Aranoa is the winner of the tenth edition of Mandarache Young Reader Prize Cartagena, whose jury is made ​​up of 2,520 aged 15 to 30 who have democratically decided that the award falls on Here lie dragons (Seix Barral, 2013).

For his part VII Hache Youth Literature Prize, the adolescent version of the bill, went to Rate (SM, 2013), a book written jointly by two authors, Javier Ruescas and Francesc Miralles, whose novel was the most voted by the jury of 1,686 students from 12-14 years.

The result of the vote, made ​​through the official website of the project www.premiomandarache.es has been revealed to the press by a group of students from IES Los Molinos representing the total of 702 reading committees enrolled in this literary democracy across 18 schools, 3 universities and other educational and youth enrolled for free.

Since September 2014 these 4,206 readers, the greatest literary jury of the country have read and discussed the novels that provided them free the city of Cartagena and were able to meet the finalists for each award authors, talk to them, ask questions and share their impressions before it came time to vote, in which 96% have exercised their right to vote.

The Mandarache Project, in which both awards are framed, is a training strategy readership among young people created by the Youth Council of the City of Cartagena in 2004 and developed from the work of a development group that integrates the efforts of centers education, libraries, bookstores, publishers, associations of parents of students, leaders and associations.

The initiative has been awarded the National Prize for the Promotion of Reading 2014 by the Ministry of Education, and achieving optimal results in its goal to become readers.

Is scheduled to return to winning authors port city on May 15 to collect their awards from the mayor of Cartagena in a ceremony at the Palacio de Congresos Auditorium The Batel. Sendos awards have a prize of 3,000 euros respectively and a reproduction of a sculpture by à ngel Haro.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena