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On January 22 and 23, the cycle of meetings with the finalists of the Mandarache 2020 Prize is inaugurated with the visit to Cartagena of the writer Samanta Schweblin, author of the disturbing 'Kentukis' (Random House Literature), a novel with which he competes in this edition and who will present these days to hundreds of young readers registered as a jury of the prize.
Samanta Schweblin's program will begin with a meeting with the press, on Wednesday 22 at 10: 00h, in the UPCT meeting room, prior to the main meeting that will be held at 10:30 am in the Auditorium with six hundred high school students .
That same day in the afternoon he will participate in a special session with the fifteen young people of the Mandarache Notebook literary workshop in the library of the National Museum of Underwater Archeology (ARQVA).
Finally, he will present his novel in a meeting with university students, reading clubs and open to the general public, at 7:30 p.m. at the Cajamurcia Foundation.
Their activities will end on Thursday 23 with two meetings: one at 09: 00h at the IES El Bohío and the last one at 11: 00h at the Caja Mediterráneo Foundation with two hundred high school students.
ABOUT SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN
Samanta Schweblin, an Argentine writer based in Berlin, is one of the authors in the Castilian language with the most international repercussion and has to his credit some of the most important literary recognitions;
such as the Casa de las Américas Award (Cuba), the Juan Rulfo Prize (France) or the Tigre Juan Prize (Spain).
He has been a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize twice and in 2018 his novel Rescue Distance won the Tournament Of Books Award for the "best book of the year published in the United States" and the Shirley Jackson Nouvelle Prize.
Schweblin is the first of the three finalists of the present edition of the Mandarache to visit Cartagena.
In February it will be the turn of Miguel Ángel Hernández, who competes with his celebrated novel The Pain of Others, and in March the cycle will close with the visit of Tina Vallès, author of The Memory of the Tree.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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