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The prize, worth $ 10,000, went to the wrong travel book, Forced Clara, edited by Editorial Pages Foam
The ceremony of the IX Setenil Award 2012 for Best Story Book Published in Spain, organized by the Municipality of Molina de Segura, will take place on Tuesday, December 11, at 20.00 pm in the Plenary Hall of the City Council, with the assistance of the local mayor, Eduardo Contreras Linares, the Director General of Cultural Assets of the Region of Murcia, Francisco Gimenez Grace Award winner Setenil IX, Clara Obligado, Councillor for Culture, Mariola Martinez Robles, President of the Jury Cristina Fernandez Cubas, and the President of the Coral Hims Mola, Fina Palazón Palazón.
The award winner was Clara Obliged, which has won the award for his work The wrong travel book, edited by Page Foam (Madrid), among the 58 submitted by publishers from all over Spain.
Prior to the award ceremony will take place at the award-winning care media, at 12.15 pm in the Center Las Balsas (Calle Cartagena, near the Plaza of the taps).
In the afternoon, at 19.30, in Paseo Rosales (next to the College of Early Childhood Education), proceed to the discovery of a plaque commemorating the Setenil Prize winner, an act that will assist the writer.
The plate was placed on a bench in the promenade area and contains a text and a commemorative award winning extract and a drawing by the painter Juan Espallardo.
Setenil Award, organized by the Culture Department of the City of Molina de Segura, is a national contest that rewards range storybooks already published, and whose ultimate goal is to highlight this genre in our country.
It is endowed with 10,000 euros.
In previous editions have obtained Alberto Mendez, by The Blind Sunflowers, Juan Pedro Aparicio, blank for Life, Cristina Fernández Cubas, Kinship poor devil, Sergi Pà mies by If you eat a lemon without grimacing, Óscar Esquivias, by Mark of Crete, Fernando Clemot by Tobacconists of Chiado, Francisco Lopez Serrano, by habits of chance, and David Roas, by distortions.
The award-winning writer, Clara Obligado (Buenos Aires, 1950), political exile of the military dictatorship, living in Madrid since 1976 and has Spanish citizenship.
He graduated in Literature in Argentina, where he was a student of Borges.
In Spain he conducted the first creative writing workshops that were organized in our country and has done great work in support of the story.
In 1996 he received the award for his novel Lumen Marx's daughter.
In addition to novels and nonfiction books, has published the collection of stories The other lives.
As autologous contributed through Please be brief 1 and 2, the implementation of the short story genre in Spain.
In the wrong travel book presents a collection of eleven stories that can be read independently, but are linked together by communicating vessels.
The migration or banishment are some forms of travel covered by this book, whose characters are drawn how chance their lives.
In the words of the author, the winning "talks about the difficult times in which we live through a trip through European history."
The Department of Culture of the Municipality of Molina de Segura has awarded this year's Recognition of Cultural Dissemination Setenil the Polyphonic Choir Hims Mola for his work in the practice and teaching of music, and for spreading the name of this town Murcia throughout Europe, an award to be presented also in the act.
The Department of Culture in 2009 instituted the Recognition of Cultural Dissemination Setenil order to distinguish those persons, groups or institutions that, over the years, have conducted activities to promote culture in the town, in any its facets.
In the three previous editions has been on the bookstore Justina Jiménez Salcedo, the businessman and art gallery owner Vicente Juan Davalos and Physics Professor Francisco Javier Abellán, organizer of the meetings on Thursdays.
In this fourth edition, the Recognition of Cultural Dissemination Setenil has been given to the Polyphonic Choir Hims Mola.
This group was founded in Molina de Segura in 1990 in response to the musical interests of its members and contribute their bit to the cultural landscape of the town.
Since then, fueled by the constant addition of new members, the activity of the Coral Hims Mola has continued to expand, acting not only in the region of Murcia and in Spain, but also in cities flagship of European culture as Vienna, Lisbon, Poitiers and Florence.
In an effort to extend the choral music, the Mola Hims created a chorus of treble voices and a youth choir, where they learn and sing more than a hundred children.
The group is chaired by Fina Palazón Palazón and its directors are Arnaldos Manuel Serrano and Pilar Fernández Gallardo.
The prestigious orchestra director Virginia Martinez Fernandez works with the group as a vocalist and as a director.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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