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An international jury of young readers will miss the Mandarache and Hache 2017 Awards. From April 24 to 27, 5,000 readers from three Cartagena countries (Spain, Colombia and Chile) vote for their favorite books. (24/04/2017)

This Friday, the winners will be announced |

Mandarache is an educational program whose objective is the training of readers and its formula is that of a double literary prize with a very special jury.

It is about 5,000 readers enrolled in the Mandarache and Hache Awards that this week will vote their favorite books of the twelfth edition failing these democratic awards organized by the Department of Youth of the City of Cartagena.

The voting takes place through the web (www.premiomandarache.es) from Monday 24 at 8:00 a.m. to Thursday, April 27 at 8:00 p.m., and on Friday, at 11:00 p.m., a group of students from IES San Isidoro will unveil Direct to the press the results in the Reception Hall of the Consistorial Palace, act in which will be present the councilman of Youth, Ricardo Segado.

The vote is individual, each reader chooses his favorite book.

The 12th Mandarache Prize will be awarded for the first time by an international jury of young readers from the world's Carthagena. Thanks to the Orillas Mandarache pilot initiative, 120 students from Cartagena de Indias in Colombia and Cartagena in Chile have joined the thousands of Students of Cartagena de España who compose the jury: a total of 2,763 young people between 15 and 30 years old organized in 477 reading committees.

Candidate authors, who have visited Cartagena throughout the school year to present their works and maintain meetings with readers, are Juan Pablo Villalobos, Milena Busquets and Miguel Ángel Ortiz.

On the other hand, the jury of the IX Hache Prize for Youth Literature is composed of 277 reading committees comprising 1,662 readers between 12 and 14 years old, who will be responsible for failing.

Its final authors have also visited Cartagena throughout the school year: Mónica Rodríguez, Pedro Riera and Luis Leante.

The case of Luis Leante is special because it is the first time that a participant writer in Mandarache (Luis Leante won the Mandarache in 2009) is selected for the Hache category;

So that if he was a winner he would be the first writer to win both awards.

The prizes have an endowment of 3,000 euros respectively and a reproduction of a sculpture by Ángel Haro.

These reproductions have been carried out by the Special Employment Center PROLAM-ASTUS, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary and whose activity has the main objective of inserting labor for people with disabilities, attending to more than 600 people with intellectual disabilities and / or Cerebral palsy and their families.

The winning writers will receive their awards from the Mayor, José López, and the Deputy Mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, on May 11 at a gala in the El Batel Auditorium with the attendance of 1,400 students and participants in the program.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena

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