The awards ceremony will be 31 July at the Playa Grande Hotel.
Friday the book that collects stories winners in the first 30 years of the contest is presented |
The Story Contest Villa de Mazarrón Segado Antonio del Olmo, organized by the Popular University and the City of Mazarrón, already has its winners of the 2015 edition, the number Villamía 31. Fernando Ugarte, born in Vitoria and living in Alicante, It has proved to be the winner of the contest with his story "Kandinsky syndrome" presented under the slogan "Larrea", for which finally receive a prize endowed with 3,600 euros and plate.
The second prize was awarded to Solano Josefina Maldonado, Alhaurin el Grande (Malaga) for the story entitled "Old Also Cry" presented under the slogan "Anastasio Bridges".
The second prize winner will get a gifted prize of 2,400 euros and a plaque.
The ceremony will take place on Friday July 31 at the Playa Grande Hotel, from 23:00.
The jury XXXI Story Contest "Villa de Mazarrón Segado Antonio del Olmo" was composed by Mari Angeles Rodriguez of the University of Murcia, Fernando Fernandez, editor, Ignacio Martin Lerma, a professor at the University of Murcia and poet, Natxo Vidal Guardiola , writer and Jose Maria Lopez Ballesta, director of the People's University of Mazarrón.
To all they joined them this year as guest member writer Luis Antonio de Villena on Thursday July 30 will hold a conference entitled "Ways and means of the story" in the Playa Grande Hotel, from 22: 00 hours.
For this year's competition were presented 956 works arrived from different parts of the national territory and Latin America, mainly.
In fact, the latter part of the world is the source of 36% of the stories.
But also and, according to its organizers, they have come stories of European authors, Japan and the Middle East.
Biography and CV of the winners of the XXXI edition of Tales Villa Mazarrón:
Villamía Fernando Ugarte.
Born in Vitoria, in the year 1957.
He is professor of Institute of Language and Spanish Literature.
Collaborating Literaturadel laRevista of CSIC and Team Theory of Literary Language CSIC same for several years, he has published several works of literary criticism.
But it has always felt the need to add some characters to the world of fiction, some vague fantasies and dreams sumptuous order.
So he writes.
He has won numerous literary prizes.
Among the highlights, we should mention some as the "Golden Piggy Contest XXX" (2002), the "Gabriel Miró Prize" (2008), the "International Short Story Award Max Aub" (2013) and the "International Award Encarna León Short Story "(2013), in the context of the story.
He has recently received the award of story "Land of Monegros" (2014), and has been a finalist the last Azorin Novel Award with his obraEl tale life.
Precisely in the field of the novel, its obraJudith and Holofernesresultó rewarded with the International Novel Prize "Felipe Trigo" .On the other ladoDª.
Solano Josefina Maldonado, born in Alhaurin el Grande (Malaga) in 1970, holds a degree in Classical Philology and Philology, and made courses PhD in Hispanic Literature at the University of Málaga.
His career as a writer has received the recognition of authors such as Francisco Ayala, Jose Antonio Garriga Vela, Araceli Simon or the Cordovan poet Alejandro López Andrada among others muchos.Ha been awarded in more than a hundred literary competitions at national and international level .
We highlight the International Prize for Fiction "live" where his work won by unanimous jury vote that highlighted its high narrative quality.
In the XIV International Fiction Prize "Ciudad de Torremolinos" his work managed to prevail between six hundred and twenty authors from over twenty countries.
He won the International Prize for Fiction "Clarin" in Asturias where he received the award from Cristina Alas, the granddaughter of Leopoldo Alas "Clarín".
To cite a few other awards we review the International Poetry Prize "Hilario Angel Calero" in Cordoba, the Cultural Narrative Prize Ateneo de Madrid, the narrative Prize "Argaya" in Valladolid, Narrative Prize "Villa de Guardo" (Palencia ) or Fiction Prize "Maria Teresa Rodriguez" the Lar Gallego memory Sevilla.Su novelaLa VI árbolesrecibió the Novel Prize "Shire of Maestrazgo".
She was selected unanimously as the jury felt it was a "formally impeccable, with measured doses of well integrated into the story, moments of emotion and a historical background to the service of the narrative lyrical novel. It is a well-constructed novel with a story and engaging with a whole invisible world recognition to women in rural areas ".
He has collaborated with the Andalusian Centre for Literature and in different media.
He was the founder and director of the magazine culturalLa victory of Sisyphus.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón