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On Friday May 6, the councilman of Culture Joan Guardiola presented, along with authors, books XXXI winners Jumilla City Literary Award 2010, which are edited by this council.
It's' Neon Lights' in the form of verse of the poet Juan Lorenzo Collado Gómez manchego and "Bitter Strawberries forever 'in the category of Short Story Writer Almeria Fernando Martínez López.
Of these two books have been published a total of 500 copies of which are given a number for authors and will also be released, by the Municipal Library, through all public libraries in the region of Murcia, as well as Jumilla schools and anyone who is interested in receiving this publication only have to notify the council or the library until all the specimens.
Juana Guardiola, who thanked the presence of writers and assistants, said "we are here to terminate the Literary Prize XXXI City Jumilla 2010, because until that publishes the work of the winners do not take for completed each of the issues. "
"This publication is always good news and is the culmination of the awards it won last year, a call for the prize, apart from the endowment goes the publication of the works," added the mayor.
Guardiola recalled that "this year by the council, has not convened the 2011 Literary Award for this since we've been doing has been to find what I understood that was missing was the media, publishing through a publisher that could spread much more the work of the winners and the Literary Prize itself, "he said, adding that" we've been working, have already contacted us and made several publishers have left some bases prepared for the convening of the next year. "
To the charge of Culture of the City "this award will secure stronger with the changes that must take, which, at present, is appreciated by young writers and we value each and will have much affection."
For its part, the winner of the mode of Verso, Juan Lorenzo Collado said: "I'm very happy, because it is always a happy time of publication of a book, an award which requires the publication and is not a prize either, is much more important, as it will leave a trail and a track that is this book, so I have only words of thanks to the organizers. "
Finished reading one of the poems to be found in 'Neon Lights'
Fernando Martinez, the winner of the mode of fiction, agreed to note the importance of the publication of a winner is always a joy and great satisfaction as if it was the birth of a literary work so I am very grateful to City Hall ".
The writer also said on "Bitter Strawberries Forever 'which is a work that we ascribe to the literary genre black or police and runs entirely in the city of Almería, arises from three facts that I had a pretty significant impact, one John Lennon's visit to Almeria in 1966 to make a film 'How I Won the War', was curiously stayed in a mansion and the vision of this house I suggested many stories, so I tried to attach a story where John Lennon appeared and this house but I needed something that came from a story about the murder of an inmate in a French jail by a sniper. "
Martinez finished reading the prologue of the novel which summarizes the union of these three events.
The jury for the XXXI edition of the Literary Award was made by Mari Carmen Alonso Sánchez, Vicente Gómez Villalba, José Evaristo Tomás Carrión, José Luis Ortiz Marín and chaired by writer Lorenzo Silva, was secretary of the José Luis González Olivares.
In all, the councilman of Culture thanked them for their collaboration and
For those attending the ceremony were presented with a copy of each of the books published, courtesy of the Department of Culture.
The authors signed their works attendees
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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