Criptanense Writer Wins Award Young University with “They say you’re dead” The criptanense writer Maria Zaragoza won the Novel Prize XV Ateneo Joven de Sevilla, worth 12,000 euros, for the work “They say you’re dead”, to be published by Algaida Publishers October.
The Novel Prize XLII Ateneo de Sevilla, worth 36,000 euros, went to the novelist, playwright and journalist Vanessa Catalan Montfort, who had already won the Young University, for his work “New York mythology.”
Although born in Campo de Criptana (Ciudad Real), lives in Madrid Zaragoza for 17 years.
In 2000 published his first book of stories “Essays on incomplete character” (TAU) and, in addition to several works, written in several anthologies and participated as a digital magazine articles.
Speaking to EFE, Zaragoza has indicated that it was “more nervous yesterday,” when he learned he was a finalist and has indicated that presented the novel, “to see what was leaving,” animated by a friend.
Zaragoza has confessed that in this book, disguised as a thriller, “although it is not at all,” the reader “has to play a lot” and is characterized “by the large number of characters.”
In “They say you’re dead,” the writer describes a murder in Madrid, where what matters is not who is the murderer, but who is dead.
Thus, the figure is being drawn Menendez Luján slowly through its partner, the last he saw them alive, the first who found the body of people who loved or hated and that little by little, are shaping a network in which, fortunately or unfortunately, anything can happen.
Montfort, which was presented under the name of Benedict Abbott, and XI was the winner of Ateneo Joven de Sevilla Prize with his first novel “The secret ingredient, something that has happened for the first time in the awards, says the editorial Algaida a shout , which also published the work in October
The novelist he was “surprised and happy” and recalled, told Efe, which cost him his show, “as it would be very lucky to win again, although in the end was a real temptation.”
He explained that the novel comes from an anecdote in Manhattan, where a person said that New York was a state of mind and what they have in common all the people who have been there “is the fiction that unites them.”
In “Mythology of New York”, the writer narrates, in an intrigue that rescues elements of black cinema and fantasy literature, the situation of the city, rocked by a series of macabre murders signed by “The Children of Chance”, a dangerous criminal organization of art thieves who are putting their lives of their victims in clandestine card games.
In this context tells his story Daniel Rogers, a former compulsive gambler infiltrated as a decoy in the gaming world to investigate the crimes and, with the help of Laura, an unsuccessful painter, discover the existence of New York mythology, a novel of murders that appear to be playing in reality.
Jury Awards Ateneo de Sevilla was composed by Alberto Maximo Perez Calero, Antonio Bellido, Francisco Prior, Miguel Angel Matellanes, Miguel Cruz Giraldez, Fernando Marias Domíngez Andrés Pérez, Marcos Fernández, Eduardo Jorda.
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