More than a thousand young people applaud the first winner of the Cartagena Mandarache Award with a play

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During the award ceremony, the organization of the literary festival confirms the inclusion of poems in the 2023 edition

More than a thousand young people attended the gala for the Mandarache and Hache 2022 Awards this Friday. In the first of the categories, he was awarded the Alfredo Sanzol Prize, for ‘La valentía’, the first play to receive that honor. In the second it was given to Elia Barceló, for the novel ‘The Frankenstein Effect’. It was confirmed at the gala that next year’s edition will expand the catalog of literary genres to include poetry, so that young readers between the ages of 15 and 30 can familiarize themselves with the verses.

In the new edition, poetry, novels and theater will have to take a critical look at thousands of young people who are part of the Mandarache Award jury of more than 25 participating educational centers in the municipality.

At the gates of the gala, Mayor Noelia Arroyo emphasized that these awards represent “one of the most outstanding projects in the field of reading education and promoting book culture on the national and international stage”. During his celebration, he emphasized the importance of participating as judges who choose the winning works of nearly 5,000 young people, organized in reading committees: “It is the largest literary jury in the world,” he said.

Among the candidates for the next edition, the Mandarache Prize highlights ‘Right of Admission’ (La Imprenta, 2022), an experiential and anti-racist collection of poems by Yeison F. García, whose verses are dedicated to migrants, who share their realities and experiences that test reader empathy. The lyrical vision of the work is complemented by some QR codes, to see images of the photographer Heidi Ramírez.l.

In a novel, the candidacy of ‘Desencajada’ (Trojan Horse, 2020) of the writer of Ukrainian descent Margaryta Yakovenko, editor and editor of the newspaper El País, comes in. It is a work imbued with sentimentality about the migration phenomenon.

The third work is the theatrical drama ‘Doña Rosita, Anotada’ by Pablo Remón, about the life of a woman who becomes single in Granada at the beginning of the 20th century and which refers to the tradition of the genre in the wake of Federico García Lorca.

‘Heroes’, by Pedro Ramos, ‘Department of Magical Affairs’, by Daniel Hernández Chambers, and ‘Nobody’s chest’ (SM Editions, 2021), by Chiki Fabregat, compete for the Hache Award, for readers aged 12-14 .

«In the theater you dare to play all kinds of subjects. “La valor” is about the price of progress,” explains Alfredo Sanzol, about a drama based on the struggle of two sisters, as one wants to keep the family at home and the other wants to get rid of it because he can’t stand the noise of a nearby road. “I really like the involvement of young readers in this event and how the City Council has achieved the involvement of other administrations to grow it,” he said.

Elia Barceló appreciated «that this is not a prize awarded by specialists who choose what they think the young public will like. It is the young readers who choose it. He was very grateful that the work they have most appreciated is his, a tale between goth and police starring a man who wakes up in a house he doesn’t know with his body scarred by large scars and a surgeon who will help him solve that mystery.

Source: La Verdad

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