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On Saturday night, May 25 the Plenary Hall of the Consistory of Alhama de Murcia took the awards for the Short Story Edition XIII Alfonso Martinez-Mena.
The event, chaired by the Mayor of Alhama de Murcia, Alfonso Ceron Fernando Morales, attended most of the final jury as well as from members of other jurors.
No missed the meeting Paul Rodriguez Medium, only in this edition awarded the second prize and the jury chose not to award the first prize.
It was the Councillor for Culture and Heritage, Carmen Maria Rodriguez, who led the ceremony, the person who read to the jury where he was granted the award Asturian writer.
After the reading of the minutes and presented the award by the mayor, the star of the night went to read his story "airs of begging".
Then the final jury was present and formed by Denise Garcia, Jose Hardened and Paul S.
Blesa, who emphasized the benefits that had been done to determine the prize.
They also explained why they had not seen fit to take the first prize.
At this point it should be ensured that basically they had not found a story that could give top marks in search of excellence, as claimed, have the prizes given.
The event also featured live music saxophone quartet from the School of Music in Alhama de Murcia, interpretations were warmly applauded by the audience.
Pablo Rodríguez Medina
The winner of the second prize is a Spaniard who has achieved various awards prizes in both regional stories and national, as well as poetry.
Paul Rodriguez has a degree in Hispanic Studies and specialist in Asturian Philology at the University of Oviedo.
Write both in Asturian and Castilian and won, among other awards Villa de Hellin, Max Aub International Short Story, Villa de Mazarrón or international award Fantastic Terrifying Story of Corvera and a second prize of Miguel de Unamuno.
It also has various publications.
Alfonso Martinez-Mena and his legacy
The figure of the famous writer born in Alhama, Alfonso Martinez-Mena, is always present on the spot, both for the many iterations that on his person and work makes the jury, for the spirit of competition.
The head of Culture Department of Alhama wanted to thank publicly the presence in the act of one of his sons, Alfonso Martinez-Mena de Molina, and the family effort and generosity "for having made it possible for his father's legacy , private library, manuscripts, photographs, awards, whether you're in the city of Alhama and more specifically in the Department of Culture and Heritage, by registering and catalogándose ".
The important legacy of writer will soon alhameño made available to researchers in Alhama to preserve and spread.
This has also bequeathed a valuable library of 6,400 books, major literary awards including the Golden Piggy, the Gabriel Miró, Sesame, Alvarez Quintero, Quevedo, Antonio Machado, National Literature Prize stories, García Pavón, and much more.
Also included is a photo archive with images of the author and characters from the world of twentieth-century Spanish literature, portraits of the author of painter friends, press kit collecting his literary career, Alhama negative images of early twentieth century, manuscripts author's works and notes that were the beginning of many of his literary works, drafts of published and unpublished stories.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia
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