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The Plenary Hall Cehegín City Council has welcomed the awarding of the Short Story Competition IV 'Salvador García Jiménez' and the First Prize for Poetry 'Gil Fernando Tudela', which have been won by Clara Escajedo Pastor and Vicente Martín Martín respectively, who have been 2,000 and 600 euros.
The event was attended by the local mayor, Jose Soria, Councillor of Culture, Nicholas del Toro, and José Barquero juror, who has read the minutes of both contests.
Thus, the latter said that "Salvador García Jiménez is the best writer who has given Cehegín, so this award was created to honor, as he has throughout his life proclaimed the name of our city to the four winds" .
The winning work has been 'Let no one sleep ", a work which, according to the Barcelona Escajedo," I have separated my personal ghosts, but not coldly written, yes it is from a perspective in which I am a spectator of a reality that is not mine, "adding that" the protagonist is a person instead of changing their sad world, prefer to create another parallel to it. "
For his part, Martin has said that "Cehegín is the people that has surprised me most of all I have seen."
Referring to the award obtained, the poet Avila said that "did not have them all with me when I sent this collection, entitled" Who knows if behind this light, 'because in it I have begun to change the record and did not know whether it would accept ".
The first edition of poetry "out of oblivion to Gil Tudela minstrel, poet of silence and solitude, but also any company," said Jose Barquero.
With a successful turnout of 710 stories and 170 poems are settled both editions of these contests, "very important to us, so I give my most sincere congratulations to the winners," expressed by the local mayor.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín
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