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The Malaga Miguel Lopez de Uralde Torres has won the award Vargas Llosa novel 2012 for his work "homeless".
The jury this year was composed of Soledad Puértolas, Juan Jose Armas Marcelo, Germán Vega, Francisco José María Pozuelo and Florit.
The ruling was made public on Thursday 20th December at the Graduate Hall School of Law by the Rector of the University of Murcia José Antonio Cobacho; Manuel Bravo (Director General of the Foundation Virtual Library Miguel de Cervantes-Chair Vargas Llosa), Mercedes Farias, (Vice Chancellor of University Extension and eGovernment), Francisco Durán Florit (Jury President Vargas Llosa Novel Prize) and Antonio Rubira (Caja Mediterráneo).
Manuel Bravo said at once that this award has "plenty of life" and a "great impact", and was "the best way to close this year of much activity" by the Foundation directed.
For his part, Antonio Rubira alluded to clean this accolade, which has no commercial interest, which favors "are many writers who are presented to him."
The rector Mercedes Farias said that "it is a pleasure to be able to embrace as many wills, and this award is the sample".
Farias, who referred to the number of participants and the high quality of the works presented, said that "advocacy of culture should be performed in the University."
On the high turnout, Florit Francisco said that "this is a fair prize without 'apalabrados', and has been from the start."
"She continued Winners win in a fair fight, and that encourages numerous original post".
Finally, the Rector José Antonio Cobacho, said he was very pleased with the trajectory and the current status of this contest, because, despite "the turmoil and difficulties of these times, have been solved and the prize is in a great situation. "
A winner of extensive experience in the new edition
Miguel Torres López de Uralde born in Malaga in 1966.
He holds a degree in Hispanic Studies.
He began his literary career in 1999 to win the prize Ignacio Aldecoa of stories.
Subsequently published novels "Shorts" (2002), "The painter of pigeons" (novella Prize Casino de Lorca, 2004) and "Listen to my silence" (novella Award Barbastro City, 2006).
With "Those who wait" won the Novel Prize XI Juan Pablo Forner, Merida (2008).
On 26 October he was awarded the Great Novel Tristana summoning Santander City Council in collaboration with the Creative Santander for his novel not know who you are, for his "great outstanding quality of writing and imagination."
The novel deals with the homeless fall into destitution told in two stories running parallel: that of a lawyer he intended to be a writer and leaves his girlfriend shortly before marriage and begins a process of progressive alienation scraping by in an empty house and another story, that of a beggar, who lives in an abandoned car, and that seems to keep a hidden secret that has to do with the death of a seven year old German girl on a beach desparecida.
The reader will attend, in a very neat narrative structure, and with measured pace, the passage of both stories.
Also alternating inner worlds and their ghosts, with a very elaborate reflective discourse on guilt, with the details of a marginal life in what appears to be the city of Malaga.
Little by little we knew things from that person, and the novel becomes a process of finding the reasons for their abandonment and progressive deterioration because that beggar, Julio Nieto, who had worked in a consulting and lived seemingly settled into a comfortable life suddenly abandons his wife and child.
Just the appearance of Lourdes, the wife of Julio Nieto allows the narrator discover their own potential and redeem his own life.
The novel is full of descriptive findings from the world of the slums in which barely survive the "homeless" and reflects the reason for the remarkable success of the human vital boredom in modern society and destroys it depersonalized.
In summary, the novel "homeless", is, as the jury has awarded "A work in tune with the most current literature."
Presentation of the winning novel in 2011
Also, today unveiled the winning novel of the sixteenth edition of the award Vargas Llosa: "Hendaye" by Mark Eymar Benedycto.
Eymar thanked the award ceremony and welcomed the fact that carry "the name of a esctiror I admire and symbolizing the unity of language on both sides of the Atlantic."
The writer said "the transparency and impartiality of the award, which is a greater incentive for creators."
The winner of last year's edition, which defined the writer as "a ventriloquist mimicking his own voice with the voice of others", referred to the origin of this story in the novel, whose birth occurred on his frequent trips in Train to Paris: "On the train journey shared with migrants from the 50 and 60 they told me very hard experiences, marked by civil war and poverty."
"I loved your bio-assured and also their language, a hybrid of French and Spanish that has hardly been shown in the literature."
Eymar finally referred to the borders, a central theme in his novel: "Perhaps there has never been so easy to cross external borders, but instead he said multiply indoors: borders between different origins, memories and language that each of us carries inside. "
Built on patterns of crime fiction, "Hendaye" is an intelligent reflection on the notions of identity and border and on the condition of the migrant and exile, dramatically torn between two worlds.
Born in Madrid in 1979, Eymar Benedycto resides in Paris, where she teaches Spanish language and culture at the University of Orléans and co-leading a writing workshop at the Instituto Cervantes.
Source: UMU
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