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Juana María Cortés Amunárriz and Blázquez win literary contests Cehegín stories and poetry (20/04/2015)

Juana Cortes Amunárriz XI won the Short Story Competition 'Salvador García Jiménez' his story 'Communion', and Maria Blázquez, meanwhile, has won the Poetry Prize VIII 'Fernando Gil Tudela' with his collection 'Escape Plan '.

Both awards will be presented on Thursday, April 23, at 13:00 in the Adolfo Suárez Cultural Center, coinciding with World Book Day activities and public reading that made the schools in the town.

The event, which will feature the writer ceheginero Salvador García Jiménez, also serve to introduce and distribute free of charge to attendees a book published to commemorate the first ten years of the story contest that bears his name.

There will also be in that act a small exhibition in which you will see a collection of international labels whose letters have been participants in the two literary contests over the years.

This year, for the eleventh Story Contest 'Salvador García Jiménez' have received 934 works, while to participate in the VIII Prize for Poetry 'Fernando Gil Tudela' have arrived 453 poems.

The large base of participation in both competitions is Spanish, but until Cehegín works from many other countries have also come as El Salvador, Guatemala, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, United States, Ecuador, Brazil, Israel, France, United Kingdom , Germany, Italy and Hungary, among others.

Juana Cortes Amunárriz

Born in Hondarribia in 1966, writer graduated in Philosophy from the University of the Basque Country.

He lives in Madrid, where he began his literary career in 2004. He has received several awards for narrative among which the Second Golden Piggy Bank Prize, the Gaceta de Salamanca, Alcala Prize for Fiction, Juvenile Novel Award Avelino Hernández, Luis Mateo Díez, the Pedro de Atarrabia Prize, Second Prize Gabriel Miró, José Calderón Escalada, the City of Martos or Story Prize Tomás Fermín de Arteta. Award

In 2009 he published his first novel, Memoirs of a drowned in the Admiral collection of publisher The third name.

In 2010 sees the light his book Dear children stories, published by Alcalá Narrative.

His third book, juvenile novel Heart, hand, heart, published by Everest in 2012, was a finalist that year in Euskadi Literary Awards in the category of Youth Novel in Castilian.

Also in 2012 the publishing house publishes The Sun Dance silent battles volume containing a selection of stories winners of the author and was selected among the ten finalists of Setenil Award for best book of stories published in Spain in 2012. In 2013 goes on sale Benita illustrated children's books and fairy Mandarina published by Egales and Cloud Eight editions.

In 2014 he published the book Greta and Circus Simba Yoyo with Cloud Eight editions.

In May 2015 the book will Shadows, published by Edhasa-Castalia, with which he has won this year's Tiflos Novel Prize.

He has participated in several anthologies of story, like girls with girls, the Egales Publishing, Travel, Train Awards 2008, published by the FFE, Stories Chain 2008 and 2009, published by Alfaguara.

He has collaborated with the Fundación Telefónica Guatemala, adapting texts for the book Let Mucha (2014).

Maria Blázquez

Born in Badajoz in 1974 and currently lives in Zafra.

Has studied law and is pursuing a Degree in Spanish Language and Literature.

Member of literary juries and literary gathering 'Page 72'.

Finalist in the Permian Novel "Lopez-Torrijos", 2013

-Prize Poetry "José Rodríguez Dumont", 2013

Finalist in the Contest of Stories "Rafael Gonzalez Castell", 2013

-Prize International Short Story "Giralda", 2012

-Prize Poetry "Poet Juan Ramos", 2012

Finalist in Poetry Contest "Gabino Pérez Albéniz", 2012

Competition Finalist Microstories "Archives of the South", 2012