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The prize, worth 12,000 euros, went to Distortions by David Roas, edited by Foam Pages
The award ceremony of the VII Setenil Award for Best Book of 2011 published accounts in Spain, organized by the city of Molina de Segura, will take place on Tuesday, December 13th at 20.00 am in the Plenary Hall of the City, with assistance from the Mayor of the town, Eduardo Contreras Linares, the Director General for the Promotion of Culture and the Book of the Region of Murcia, Francisco Giménez Grace Award winner Setenil VIII, David Roas, Councillor for Culture, Mariola Martinez Robles, President of the Jury, Fernando Iwasaki, and promoter of the circle on Thursdays, Francisco Javier Abellán.
The winner was David Roas, who has won the award for his work Distortions, edited by Foam Pages (Madrid), among the 64 submitted by publishers in Spain.
In the afternoon, at 19.30 am in Paseo Rosales (near the intersection with Calle Jara Carrillo), proceed to the discovery of a plaque commemorating the Setenil Prize winner, an act that will assist the writer, and will be held the attention of the recipient the media.
The plaque has been placed on a bench in the promenade area and contains a text commemorating the award and an excerpt of the winning work and a drawing by the painter John Espallardo.
Setenil Award, organized by the Culture Department of the City of Molina de Segura, a national contest that rewards range of stories and books published, and whose ultimate goal is to revalue this genre in our country.
It is endowed with 12,000 euros.
In previous editions have obtained Alberto Mendez, for The Blind Sunflowers, Juan Pedro Aparicio, for life in white, Cristina Fernández Cubas, Kinship poor devil PĂ mies Sergi, if you eat a lemon without making faces, Oscar Esquivias by The mark of Crete, and Fernando Clemot for Tobacconists of Chiado, and Francisco Lopez Serrano, by habits of chance.
The winning writer, David Roas (Barcelona, ​​1965) is Professor of Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Among his works include the novel bloody Celluloid (1996), the volume of daily horror stories and micro-stories (2007) and the book of humorous chronicles of a harpooner Meditations (2008).
Specialist in fantastic literature, has published several essays and anthologies on gender.
The jury Setenil VIII Award winner considers the book, distortions, which brings together 19 pieces of unequal length, "is characterized both by its freshness and agility, for the risks assumed by the author narrative, containing many memorable tales with fantasy and humor as main features. "
The Department of Culture of the City of Molina de Segura has awarded this year's Recognition of Cultural Dissemination Professor Francisco Javier Setenil Abellán for organizing gatherings calls on Thursday for nearly two decades, an award that is delivered into the act.
The Department of Culture established in 2009, the Recognition of Cultural Dissemination Setenil in order to distinguish those individuals, groups or institutions that, over the years, have performed activities to promote culture in the municipality, in any its facets.
In the previous two editions has been on the bookstore Justina Jimenez Salcedo and the businessman and art gallery Juan Vicente Davalos.
In this third edition, the Recognition of Cultural Dissemination Setenil has been given to Francisco Javier Garcia Abellan (Molina de Segura, 1954), MD, Professor of Applied Physics, University of Murcia.
Man of many interests both cultural and social, philosophical and scientific, Javier Abellán organized 18 years ago the first of his coterie of Thursday, at the Casino de Molina, with a conference about the new ESO.
Since then, the circles have been held every week on time over successive school years, having marched by them and having hundreds of speakers addressed the disparate themes.
The personal commitment and perseverance of Javier Abellán have allowed, despite having limited financial means, these gatherings have grown into a vital cultural reference in Molina de Segura.
Grateful for this recognition, Javier Abellán said that the award will be forced to continue to organize gatherings "at least ten years."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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