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On Saturday, at a ceremony held at the facilities of Bodegas San Isidro, were awarded prizes of XXXI Jumilla City Literary Prize, whose jury was chaired by writer Lorenzo Silva and organized annually by the culture department of city hall.
The winners were, in the form of poetry, Juan Lorenzo Albacete Collado with the work 'Neon Lights', which received the amount of 2,000 euros, and the Short Story section of Fernando Martinez, a native of Almeria, on the job' Bitter Strawberries forever 'worth 6,000 euros.
The winners received their distinction from the hand of Lorenzo Silva and Francisco Abellán, Mayor of Jumilla, respectively.
The event, attended by more than fifty people and was presented by journalist María José Hernández, began with welcoming remarks by a representative of BSI.
Then came the Councillor for Culture, Juana Guardiola who addressed those present and thanked the work of the components of the jury, and the staff of the Library.
The components of the jury, Mari Carmen Alonso, Vicente Gómez, José Evaristo Carrión, José Luis Ortiz and Lorenzo Silva received a gift from the hands of the council, like Francisco Pardo for his presentation of bookmarks' The world between two pages. "
Guardiola gave the floor to the president of the jury the writer Lorenzo Silva, Nadal Prize in 2000.
Silva congratulated the council for this award and the winners and emphasized the importance of such calls literature "with which it provides an opportunity for many people who write and if it were not for these competitions, they would have the option I knew them by how hard it is to publicize their work, which would lose much talent. "
After his remarks, the secretary of the jury José Luis González, proceeded to read the minutes after the awards ceremony and the speeches of the winners who spoke on their work and thanked the award.
The event was closed by Mayor Francisco Abellán Jumilla, in the same way, congratulated the winning writers and the Department of Culture to keep this call literary.
He also referred to the previous council of Culture for her work on behalf of the Literary Prize "City of Jumilla."
Finally, Abellán reflected on the need for involvement and support of different groups and associations of Jumilla in the cultural events are organized from different perspectives.
Finally, attendees took a tour of the facilities of BSI and shared a wine of honor.
In this edition of the award has been presented 72 works, 45 belonging to the short story mode and 27 to the poetry.
In addition, jobs have been sent from almost all regions, but also from countries like Germany and Holland.
Other activities marking the Literary Prize
The ceremony for the awards has been the culmination of a week that has developed several activities to commemorate the Literary Prize XXXI 'City of Jumilla.
So I have made the Bookmark Contest, the exhibition "The world between two pages" of Francisco Pardo, the presentation of the winners of last year's "Ground Swell" by Javier Ruiz Taboada and Land and Water "by Francisco Rabadan Aroca, or meeting of about 200 young students with writer Lorenzo Silva.
At this meeting, Silva talked about his work 'The distant land of the ponds', noted that "the importance of these meetings which demonstrate that readers are getting the work is kept alive or become irrelevant."
It is not the first time the writer comes in Jumilla, as it has done on other occasions to meet with their readers.
Lorenzo Silva for his three keys as a writer and reader to a work is good or not be achieved "communicate, entertain and hear and know."
Finally, he stated that "the situation of literature in Spain is not bad but can be complicated, if it is hard to live literary creation can be complicated if widely read in digital media, which would require some type consensus between the parties. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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