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The prize is worth 12,000 euros
CAM Social Work, University of Murcia and the Chair Vargas Llosa have opened within the invitation to participate in the XVII Vargas Llosa Novel Prize.
The basis of this contest are available on the websites of Social Work CAM (http://obrasocial.cam.es), the University of Murcia (www.umu.es / culture / vargasllosa) and the Chair Vargas Llosa (www. catedravargasllosa.com).
The prize is worth 12,000 euros.
The Rector of the University of Murcia, Jose Antonio Cobacho, expressed satisfaction at having a "literary award category which makes it qualify him as a prize to the Spanish language, and it is serving, in fact, to encourage literature our language "and states that the large number of issues reached" can not respond to anything but the exceptional work of the team who run it. "
Carlos Moyano, director of Social Work CAM, says that "being unitholders Vargas Llosa Prize a year is an honor for our organization because it is a very high value contest, both for the quality of the works in competition as Nobel Prize lends his name. "
He adds that this novel prize "complements the literary competitions of CAM, both Story Gabriel Miró, like Gabriel Sijé Short Novel."
Literary prize may attend all Spanish and foreign authors to submit works written in Castilian.
The works, which must be unpublished and not winning, it can be submitted until September 21, 2012 in the Rector of the University of Murcia.
The verdict will be announced in Murcia throughout the month of December 2012.
Each author may submit one work.
The novels, which should have an extension of at least 150 pages, will be presented to competition under the motto or pseudonym, accompanied by envelope or sealed envelope inside which shall include duly completed entry form, which is available on the websites of Work Social CAM, University of Murcia and Chair Vargas Llosa.
CAM Social Work, University of Murcia and the Chair Vargas Llosa have made this a literary prize of the most drawing power at international level between the events in Spanish-language novel.
Proof of this is that each issue received more than 250 novels from over 25 countries.
The initiative to convene a Novel Prize with Vargas Llosa's name arose in 1995 when the University of Murcia decided to appoint an honorary Doctor Mario Vargas Llosa, becoming the first Spanish university to distinguish the author of 'The Feast of the Goat' with this appointment.
That year the University Social Work proposed CAM that was the sponsor of the award, since it is an institution that supports creative writing for more than half a century calling his literary prizes: the Gabriel Miro, in the category of stories, and Gabriel Sijé,
Source: UMU
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