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The writer Eduardo Mendoza visit Cartagena for several meetings with readers in the framework of the building Mandarache reading.
The amazing journey of Pomponio Flato (Seix Barral, 2008) is the title already reading more than 2,000 young people this year have enrolled as a juror in this popular literary prize.
Mendoza is the second of this year's finalists to visit the port city.
In December it was the turn to the author caravaqueño Luis Leante, and in February will be the youngest of the three, Ricardo Menéndez Salmon, who quit the program of meetings with the author.
So, tomorrow, Wednesday January 14, Eduardo Mendoza will meet with 600 high school students in the auditorium of the UPCT, after 11 hours.
Previously, at 10.30 am, there will be a press conference in the briefing room of the Campus de la Muralla del Mar. In the afternoon, at 20 hours, the writer will have a meeting with academics and the general public in Foundation Cultural Center CajaMurcia in Cartagena.
On Thursday January 15th, Catalan writer continue in Cartagena for a meeting with students of the IES Ben Arabi after 11 hours.
The fourth edition of the award jury has Mandarache than 2,100 young people between 15 and 30, organized in 350 councils from reading mostly from secondary schools and the Polytechnic University.
The participants read the three novels, will meet the finalists and three authors during the month of April will vote their favorite via the official website www.premiomandarache.es.
In addition, the project Mandarache has been enriched this year 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.
NOVEL
In the first century AD, Pomponio Flato travels the confines of the Roman Empire in search of water portentous effects.
The random and precarious nature of their fortune led him to Nazareth, where he will be executed the village carpenter, who was convicted of the brutal murder of a wealthy citizen.
Reluctantly, Pomponio is immersed in the solution of the crime, hired by the most special guests: the carpenter's son, a child naive and unique, convinced of the innocence of his father, a man apparently peaceful and silent, hiding, however, a great secret.
Crossing historical novel, thriller, hagiography and parody of all, the amazing journey of Pomponio Flato is the most unusual and unexpected Eduardo Mendoza, and also one of the most fun.
As in Don Quixote solfa were put on the books of chivalry, here are adjusted to account consumer many novels, and is built at the same time, a new type of genre characteristic of Eduardo Mendoza: the original detective plot and ironic which results in a literary satire in a hilarious fictional creation of inexhaustible vitality.
EDUARDO MENDOZA
Born in Barcelona in 1943.
He has published, always in Seix Barral, the novels The truth about the case Savolta (1975), which won the Critics Award, The Mystery of the Haunted Crypt (1979), The Labyrinth of olives (1982), The City prodigies (1986), Premio Ciudad de Barcelona, unheard Island (1989), No news from Gurb (1991), The Year of the Flood (1992), a light comedy (1996), for which she won in Paris in 1998 The Best Foreign Book Award, also referred to the whole of his work, The Adventure of the ladies room (2001), Award for "Book of the Year 'in Madrid Booksellers Guild, the last stretch of Horacio Two (2002 ) and Mauritius or the primary election (2006), Premio de Novela Fundación José Manuel Lara Hernández.
In collaboration with her sister Cristina Barcelona Modernist wrote (1989, Seix Barral, 2003).
He is the author of the plays in Catalan Restauració (1990, updated in the Castilian author: Restoration, 1991) and Gloria (Castilian version of the author: Gloria, forthcoming in Seix Barral).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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