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The Mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, will inaugurate this afternoon in the Municipal Auditorium and Congress Center of El Batel the III Edition of the Black Literature, Police and Mystery 'Black Cartagena', which will be held until Saturday 9 September.

The event, which will also be the councilman of Culture, Education and Equality, David Martinez, will take place at 6 pm.

Cartagena Negra presents in this edition several novelties, among which stand out the I Prize of Black Novel Cartagena or the edition of the Anthology of Reports Black Cartagena.

Also this year the presence of law enforcement, the treatment of evil and the black genre produced next to the Mediterranean will be the three main thematic lines around which will turn the festival that has already made a place of renown in the panorama national.

A total of 30 authors from all points of the national geography, such as Tenerife, Galicia, San Sebastián, Bilbao or Castellón, will visit Cartagena and participate in the numerous activities programmed as presentations, writing workshops or round tables, among others.

There will also be space for music and the world of comics or for the audiovisual in the form of short films.

It will also seek a greater involvement of the public by organizing activities as attractive as possible as a Workshop of Writing Police provided by the writer Clara Peñalver, the Contest of Black Microrrelates live 'Leave here your hat', whose requirement is essential to being able to participate will consist of attending this complement, and that has a prize for the winner of a dinner for two people and a hotel night in Los Habaneros - or 'Menudos small detectives', designed for the little ones.

The nine meetings of reading clubs, the 'Aperitivos negros' or the inauguration of the festival will also have relevance, which this year will be attended by Esteban Navarro, a national police and front-line writer.

But if something will stand out especially in this edition is undoubtedly the First Prize of Novel Cartagena Negra, whose first winner has been Rafa Melero with his book 'Ful', leaving as finalists Rosa Rivas and Sabine Hofman;

Aro Sáinz de la Maza;

Vicente Garrido and Nieves Abarca;

and Santiago Álvarez.

It should be noted that this award is delivered ex officio by the festival organization, that is, the jury chooses various novels released that year and values ​​them without the need for anyone to present a candidature.

The delivery will be made at the closing session of this third edition of 'Cartagena Negra', to be held on 9 September at 9:00 pm in the cafeteria Mr. Witt and, although not associated with an economic endowment, from the Event organization has remained that will be a great surprise.

On the other hand is the edition of the Anthology of Stories Cartagena Negra, which includes 23 texts by authors of national scope and a sample of regional authors who have been going through the festival on previous occasions.

Its cost will be 10 euros.

All scheduled activities and meetings are free except for the Police Writing Workshop that will be given by Clara Peñalver (which will cost 30 euros) and the activity 'Menudos detectives menudos', for which it will be necessary to pay 3 euros and the children will receive a gift.

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Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena