Mandarache The Young Reader Award, organized by the Youth Council of the City of Cartagena, already has three finalists for the 2008/2009 edition, whose names have been announced during the award ceremony for the current version of the writer Gustavo Martín Garzo.
This is Luis Leante writers, with his work 'See if I'll love you', Eduardo Mendoza, 'The amazing journey of Pomponio Flato' and Ricardo Menéndez Salmon, with his work 'The offense', all authors who received numerous awards throughout his career.
The three finalists have been chosen by the project sponsor group Mandarache Prize, consisting of teachers and secondary teachers, librarians, booksellers, youth and young technicians enrolled in reading committees.
Luis Leante, born in Caravaca de la Cruz in 1963 a degree in Classics and has grown every genre, from drama to poetry, through the novel and the essay.
'See if I'll love you', a love story in two days, has been awarded the Alfaguara de Novela X Prize.
Eduardo Mendoza, was born in Barcelona in 1943.
Throughout his long career he has received many awards, the latest being the Permian de Novela Fundación José Manuel Lara Hernández for his novel 'Mauritius or the primaries' (2006).
In the works selected for the award Mandarache, 'The amazing journey of Pomponio Flato ", Mendoza puts its protagonist in the first century AD, during the Roman Empire, with a pattern of secrecy and intrigue replete with irony.
Menendez Ricardo Salmon, the youngest of the finalists, was born in Gijón in 1971 and a BA in Philosophy.
His stories, very well received by critics, have won major awards, such as Alfonso Martínez Mena, Antonio Segado del Olmo and Jose Nogales.
"The offense" is the story of a young German tailor marked by the outbreak of World War II.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena