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The novel See if I love you (Alfaguara, 2007), the writer Luis Leante, the title is already reading the 2,100 young people this year have enrolled as a literary prize jury Mandarache to promote reading.
Leante is the first writer in the Region of Murcia is Mandarache Award finalist, and also the first of the finalists of this year to visit the port city.
This morning was met with more than 600 young readers in the auditorium of the UPCT and this afternoon will do the same with academics and the general public in an overt act in the Hall of CajaMurcia.
In January, recalled the councilman of Youth, it will be the turn of Eduardo Mendoza, and in February the youngest of the three, Ricardo Menéndez Salmon.
The project is enriched Mandarache this year, and with other initiatives to promote reading and the Youth Literature Prize Hache, which this year began his career with more than 1,000 adolescents enrolled and the first visit of the finalists of the , Andreu Martin, on Monday December 15, and Book Clubs Network, aimed at those over 30 years.
See if I love you is, above all, the story of a love that lasts 26 years to transform their characters.
It is also a story in which cultures and social classes contrast during a time when Spain lost the last of its colonies and it became a different country.
From the beginning, the novel engages the reader who remains in suspense pending the multiple stories with different voices and styles, alternating two beautiful tragedies.
Leante intended, with this book, claiming the story of the Saharawi people, a town close by their culture and tradition, yet so distant by the great ignorance about it among the Spanish.
This is one of the most gratifying job for a writer to bear witness to a part of history that is still alive and it is this mixture of fiction and reality can serve to engage readers, also the youngest.
To Leante, Mandarache Award embodies pure literature: the reader, the writer and his work.
The important thing is contact with readers, who are ultimately to be written, said Leante.
Leante Luis has already completed his next novel, 'The Red Moon', a story that takes place between Turkey, Spain and Germany and although deals with writers and literary lives, has one thing in common with See if I love you: the crossroads between cultures and integration.
FIGURES IN THIS ISSUE
This Prize has again broken Mandarache turnout figures.
A one-week registration period closes, the Award Mandarache jury already has a reading of 350 committees (2,100 young people between 15 and 30).
On the other hand, the new Youth Literature Prize Hache started its first edition with great strength and has 180 reading committees (1,080 adolescents between 12 and 14).
In addition, the network of Mandarache Reading Clubs, directed at adults, round figures to the creation of 18 clubs reading (301 adult readers) at public libraries, the People's University and the University of Elder Affairs UPCT.
In total, nearly 3,500 people who will read through Mandarache project, which is becoming one of our most effective in promoting reading among young people and the rest of the population.
IV finalists are Luis Leante Mandarache Prize for his novel See if I love you, Eduardo Mendoza, for his novel The amazing journey of Pomponio Flato, and Ricardo Menéndez Salmon, for the offense.
For its part, the finalists are new Andreu Martín Hache Prize for his novel Chats, Elia Barceló, for future danger, and Care Santos, Ask the moon.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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