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"A novel that will surprise and catch their future readers," so said the professor of the University of Murcia and Jury President Francisco Florit literary contest on Prize winning work of fiction XV Mario Vargas Llosa, promoted by CAM University of Murcia.

The ruling was released Thursday at the Aula de Cultura de Caja Mediterráneo, in a ceremony presided by the rector of the University of Murcia, José Antonio Cobacho and territorial president of that entity, Angel Martinez.

The work has been selected from a total of 152 novels from many Latin American countries and the United States, United Kingdom, Turkey, Singapore and Luxembourg, among others.

The prize, worth 12,000 euros, went on the novel "Diary elder," Mayor Ceravalls Raphael, born in Barcelona in 1961, graduated in Philosophy, Doctor of Economics and now professor of Bachelor.

Mayor won last year's fiction prize Alfonso VIII, sponsored by the Provincial Council and the Editorial Edaf Basin.

According to the Vice Chancellor of University Extension, Francisco Guillermo Diaz, the novel will again be published by the University of Murcia, through its editorial Editum.

During the event, Angel Martinez and Jose Antonio Cobacho expressed its intention to rely on the presence of the writer who gives name to the literary award - "long before he was awarded the Nobel Prize," said the rector as to personally deliver the award and present the publication.

Also during the event will be issued the call for the sixteenth edition of Vargas Llosa's fiction award for the year 2011.

Francisco Florit referred to the characteristics of the winning entry, written as a diary, but the originality of it is said, the fact that daily pass through the hands of five people, because "every time, the drafters of the leave their mark, leave your thoughts, feelings, at the same time that shed some light on the events. "

The play is a tale of intrigue with deaths through where "Rafael Mayor pinpoints an exciting plot," which highlights the "mastery of the author to get under the skin of each of the editors of the newspaper."

"The jury concluded Florit, has awarded a novel that will have to talk about see the light of print, that will surprise and catch their future readers."

Source: Universidad de Murcia. Fotos: Luis Urbina