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Asturian writer Ricardo Menéndez Salmon has this morning in Cartagena for several encounters with the hundreds of readers enrolled in Mandarache to promote reading.
The author of offense (Seix Barral, 2007) is the third and last of the finalists for the award to visit the port city, set in the wake of Eduardo Mendoza, with his book The amazing journey of Pomponio Flato, and writer Luis caravaqueño Leante, to See if I love you.
The mechanism of the prize Mandarache culminates in April with votes from readers on the official website of the Prize, www.premiomandarache.es , and the award to the winner on May 6, said the councilman of Youth , Javier Herrero.
The offense, which is having well received by young readers, according to advance Nieves Pérez, professor and member of the organizing committee of the Prize, is the first book in a trilogy about the roots of evil, about the human condition and the ability of Man to face some unbearable situations the hand of a young tailor in Nazi Germany.
The problems I deal with are universal, regardless of the age of the reader, and may serve to reflect on certain elements and access to other non-juvenile literature, Menendez says Salmon.
Despite its attempt to know evil, the writer claimed to have no answers.
Literature is a mechanism of inquiry and simply ask questions, to make people think he stated.
The young Spaniard has held pessimistic anthropology.
We are a hopeless, but I always find reasons to follow later in the day to day, and one of them is the literature that protects me from a reality that is sometimes unbearable.
Menendez Salmon Award Mandarache defined as an initiative so unusual and refreshing for both readers because the writers can come, bring them face to know that they are human like them, as for the writer, because literature is a constant dialogue with readers and their opinions enhances the work.
Next Tuesday will be released the second book in this trilogy of evil that runs from the year 39 until today with the attacks in Madrid in 2004 under the name of the spell.
In the afternoon, at 20 hours, the writer will meet with university and open to the general public CajaMurcia Foundation Cultural Center in Cartagena.
In addition, yesterday the writer held a first meeting with students of IES El Bohio.
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.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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