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Mandarache Training Project prepares readers for a new edition of meetings with authors.
With 4,905 readers, the Eleventh Edition of the Awards Hache Mandarache and closes its registration period, beating participation record since its inception in 2004 organized by the Youth Council of the City of Cartagena.
With the participation of young people aged 15 to 30 years mostly from institutes and universities, this year's awards are the country's greatest literary jury that brings together 2,868 young people.
The participation of young people is organized into six committees readers reading each counting Mandarache 478 Award from committees mostly of secondary schools and UPCT ISEN University Center, the program Implica2 volunteering and reading committees registered for free.
The Hache Youth Literature Prize, which runs on the same formula as the Mandarache, is awarded by adolescents 12 to 14 years and this year has registered 1,704 readers in 284 reading committees.
Lastly Network Book Clubs, which allows involve over 30 years with the right to read the novels finalists Mandarache and meet their authors without the right to vote, has 333 registered in book clubs organized mostly in municipal libraries, literary workshops of the People's University and the University of Elders of the UCPT.
Also this year within the network of clubs Mandarache has created a new youth club reading dependent library of Santa Ana.
MANUEL MOYANO MEET OPENS THE CYCLE
Manuel Moyano, candidate for his novel The Empire of Yegorov (Anagram, 2014), will be in Cartagena with hundreds of readers on 20 and 21 January.
The author, who has been a finalist for the prestigious Herralde Prize 2014, will open the series of meetings with authors on Wednesday 20 January at 19.30 in the Cajamurcia Foundation in an act introduced by writer, teacher and critic Antonio Parra Sanz, Member of the Promoter Group of the project.
Moyano will meet with academics, members of book clubs and the general public.
On Thursday 21 January at 8.15 am the author visit the IES San Isidoro in Los Dolores.
At 1015 hours the author will respond to questions from the press in the Boardroom UPCT and 11.00 present his novel in the traditional meeting with 600 high school students in the auditorium of the UPCT.
Based in Molina de Segura for more than two decades ago and developed there part of his literary production, Manuel Moyano is considered an author Murcia despite having Córdoba as hometown.
He called Writers related meteorite, it is the first author competing this year for democratic Hache and Mandarache Awards with Cristina Sanchez-Andrade, Alejandro Palomas, Marinella Terzi, Patricia Garcia-Rojo Canton and Ana Alcolea.
The authors will visit Cartagena during the months of January, February and March to present their novels before official voting to take place in April through the project website.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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