Mazarrón is ready for another year to celebrate its most international evening, the story contest "Villa de Mazarrón - Segado Antonio del Olmo."
The competition reaches its twenty-seventh edition with a program full of literature, music and, as the centerpiece, the usual awards to the winners this year.
The presentation of the program has been made by the mayor of Mazarrón, Ginés Campillo, the Councillor for Culture, Maria Celeste Soria, and the director of People's University in Mazarrón, José María López Ballesta.
The music will be the star of the first of the festivities planned for this new edition.
The host hotel Playa Grande on Friday 22 the performance of the jazz band "Tote Cánovas Quartet" and the singer "Angela Bossa" from 10 o'clock at night.
These two concerts have been funded by the Social Work of the Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo (CAM) who Ballesta Lopez thanked his involvement with this competition.
On Friday July 28 in the same place and starting at 10 pm, will be the popular annual conference holds a leading figure in the national literature.
This time will be the National Literature Prize, Gustavo Martín Garzo, who will make a "Defense of the fairy tale" through which attendees will explain what the structure and development of these magical stories.
A day later, the same frame will host the awards to the winner and runners-up contest at an evening event that gives the cream of society and Murcia Mazarron.
The twelve stories that choose finalists to win the contest are "Make me moan," Isabel the slogan, "The Secret of Heredia Chelo" without motto, "Yellow Heart" of Curlew, "The tragic story of Linceo Gegarra" under Tiresias the slogan, "A corpse in the library" Marion Lebenworth, "Four searches of Chinese philosophy and a pumpkin," under the motto Michael D.
Cervantes, "Solitude suburbs" of Ardis Ladoga, "Ten Plus One" Vigilante, "The substitute" Mascarini, "Vladivostok" presented by Septentrión Blue, "Boxes" by Alexander Agricultural and "Enrique" Sebastian Ramirez.
This year we have received a total of 1,599 copies, of which 1564 have gone to tender.
Once again we have received stories from all over Spain, Latin America and virtually all countries inside and outside the European Union and Japan, and Israel have in Equatorial Guinea.
Crossbow Lopéz stressed that "participation has tripled in the last 10 years and many of the specimens belong to writers who repeated luck. This fidelity to the event is very important because it ensures good health and continued competition."
Meanwhile the mayor of Mazarrón, Ginés Campillo, said that "the session will continue to support this initiative betting on it" and thanked "the splendid work of the People's University in general and the director, in particular to year after year the competition is once again a success. "
Campillo has highlighted the importance of the "Villa de Mazarrón - Antonio del Olmo Segado" has to Mazarrón, "not only because it promotes culture among the citizens but also for the important place of the projection image of the municipality at the regional, national and internationally. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón