Portal de Cartagena
www.portaldecartagena.com
Comes a new Mandarache Prize, which this year expands its goal of promoting reading to all sectors of the population.
After five years of experience from the pilot edition, Mandarache Award has proved effective and has been implanted permanently in the consciousness of youth Cartagena.
As explained by the councilman of Youth, Javier Herrero, while presenting the 2009 Award in the previous edition of 325 signed reading committees, composed of 6 young people between 15 and 30 years, which means that 1,950 young people from the municipality As the jury constituted nation's largest literary.
This year also incorporated news of great importance, as is a new type of award for adolescents between 12 and 14-year-old Hache Youth Literature Award, and the creation of Reading Clubs for all ages through which all citizens Cartagena non-youth can enjoy reading together of Mandarache Award finalists.
The first arises from the need to 'catch' reading to young people closer to the onset of adolescence, while Reading Clubs for all ages respond to the growing demand of many citizens over age 30 each edition approach the City requesting participation in the Mandarache.
The Department of Culture is added in this way Mandarache Award, since participation in the Hache Award will be made through schools and the inclusion in the Book Clubs will be done through local libraries, said the head of this council, Rosario Montero.
The Mandarache thus becomes a comprehensive program to promote reading led to the total population of the municipality, with its peculiar strategy (committees and reading clubs, writers' visits, meetings, workshops, contests ...) and that continue to grow and spread in successive editions, said Smith.
The project staff also grows.
This year there are new important support as the General Educational Development of the Region of Murcia or the People's University of Cartagena, with its literary workshops.
This new edition has been Mandarache Award 'named' for three writers estate, José María Merino, Clara Obligado and Hipólito García Navarro, who yesterday attended the recital of stories hiperbreves in the Book Fair and today have remained the first author's encounters with more than 600 schoolchildren in the municipality.
All three writers have highlighted the surprising and spectacular follow-up of this initiative among young people in Cartagena, even considering that it is an initiative related to books and reading.
In a society where more and have more influence over the media, the Prize Mandarache get that books are more relevant than ever.
AWARDS FINALISTS
Mandarache Award Finalists 2009, which is presented under the theme "Animals of the word 'are Eduardo Mendoza, with his work' The amazing journey of Pomponio Flato '; Luis Leante, with' Look, if I love you ', and Ricardo Menendez Salmon, with 'The offense. "
Participation among 15 to 30 years reading committees organized through secondary schools, the Technical University and young free attachment.
Registration will be held in the Department of Youth.
For its part, the finalists of the Youth Literature Award are Hache Care Santos, with 'Ask the moon', Andreu Martin, 'Chats', and Elia Barceló, with' Futures dangerous. "
Be open to youths 12 to 14 years after enrollment in secondary schools.
Finally, Reading Clubs for all ages to promote reading of the finalists in the Award for Young Readers Mandarache through public libraries, where they can register those over 30 years.
MEETINGS WITH AUTHOR
As in previous years, the Prize Mandarache includes a calendar of meetings with the author, that opened this morning with the presence of writers José María Merino, Clara Obligado and Hipólito García Navarro.
The following are Luis Leante, December 12, Eduardo Mendoza, 14 January, Andreu Martín (Hache Award), on January 21, Elia Barceló (Hache Award), on February 4, Ricardo Menéndez Salmon, 11 February; and Care Santos (Hache Award), on 18 February.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
Privacy policy
- Legal notice
- Cookies