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The book "Letters from Europe arrived" by Argentine writer Carlos Maria Sanchez Bulk, has won the Novel Prize XX Vargas Llosa, who has now failed in the city of Murcia.

The book awarded this prize, which convened the University of Murcia, Caja Mediterráneo Foundation and the Chair Vargas Llosa of Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library Foundation, is an epistolary novel in which a young Argentine visit Europe at the beginning of World War II World.

The protagonist, who will report to his brother on cultural and political events that witness, find love through a woman who will help you in your business and show you the collaborationist side with the Nazis and a courageous member Czech resistance than fall in love intensely.

The jury-composed of professors from the University of Murcia Francisco Florit, as president, and José María Pozuelo and Soledad Puértolas writers and JJ Armas Marcellus particularly appreciated "the fact that the author has raised with the historical background of originality the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia. "

It has also appreciated in the novel "a skillful balance between historical and sentimental elements" and combines "skillfully external aspects and experiences of the characters."

In this twentieth edition of the award, he stressed Professor Florit, original 180 from 13 countries were presented;

works came from Spain's 17 autonomous communities.

The author, Carlos María Sánchez Bulk (Rosario, 1949) has published three novels in Argentina before "Chronicles of the flood" (Editorial Argenta), "A trip to Istanbul" (Editorial Planeta), which was award the newspaper La Nation 2001, and "Laus Dementiae" Emecé 2009 Award finalist.

During the ceremony in which the ruling was announced, held at the Cultural Hall of Caja Mediterráneo Foundation it has also submitted the notice and grounds of the XXI edition of the award.

This event was attended by the Vice President for Communication, Culture and Sport, Monica Perez Morales Galdana;

the first vice president of the Foundation Caja Mediterráneo, Clemente Garcia;

the general director of the Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library Foundation, Manuel Bravo, and the teacher said Florit.

The rector pointed out that the award came in 1995, when the University of Murcia named honorary doctor Mario Vargas Llosa, becoming the first Spanish university to grant this distinction to the Peruvian Nobel.

Source: Universidad de Murcia