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The jobs have come from all over Spain and many countries, including El Salvador, Guatemala, Israel, Germany, France, Venezuela, Mexico and the UK
The most prestigious literary contests that convenes annually Cehegín City Council received a total of 1,307 jobs have come from all corners of Spain and also from different countries, as reported by the Councillor for Education Nicolás del Toro, who expressed his satisfaction with the high number of participants work, "which goes to show the consolidation of these international competitions."
Specifically, for X Story Contest 'Salvador García Jiménez' have received 872 works, while VI to participate in the Poetry Prize 'Gil Fernando Tudela' poems have reached 435.
"Both literary contests have far exceeded the expectations of the Department of Culture, as two were born to promote our writers, highlighting the universal values ​​of literature and find new values ​​in the literature written in Castilian, but I never expected that they had both success because jobs come from all over the world and this year, with 1,307 entries received, it has reached the highest number of participation, "said the councilman of Culture.
The large base of participation in both contests is Spanish, but have also come up Cehegín works from many other countries, always written in Spanish such as El Salvador, Guatemala, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, USA, Ecuador, Brazil, Israel, France, UK, Germany, Italy and Hungary, among others.
The story contest has a unique prize of 2,000 euros and other unique poetry prize of 1,000 euros.
The jury's decision will be announced in April and the awards ceremony will coincide with the activities that celebrate the City on the occasion of World Book Day.
The poet Gil Fernando Tudela Cehegín died in 2008 aged 99, having been all his life a poetic and culture for a whole generation of people and local writers.
Gil Tudela displayed his poetry throughout the twentieth century, creating a style of great beauty and lyricism.
Meanwhile, writer Salvador García Jiménez (Cehegín, 1944), Doctor of Arts with a thesis on Kafka and Spanish literature, has served for many years as Professor of Language and Literature School and its quality as a writer has done deserving of many awards and accolades.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín
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