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The presentation of the new Meteorite Writers plaques at the Paseo de las Letras of Molina de Segura will take place on Thursday, May 23, at 1:00 pm, at the Parque de la Compañía.
The Mayor of Molina de Segura, Esther Clavero Mira, the Councilor for Culture, Pedro Jesús Martínez Baños, and all the honored authors attend: Vicente García Hernández, Francisco Javier Illán Vivas, Antonio Ruiz Munuera, Javier Martínez, García de Saura and José Antonio Jiménez-Barbero.
The Paseo de las Letras has been expanded with new plates with the names of six writers, under the agreement recently approved by the Municipal Plenary.
To mark the literary boom experienced in Molina de Segura, the Paseo de las Letras was created in 2011, located in the Parque de la Compañía, where a monolith with the so-called Meteorite Legend was built.
In said Paseo plaques were installed with the names of 10 writers who then fulfilled the requirements established by the Department of Culture: be born or resident in Molina de Segura, and have published at least one work of fiction as a single author in a field editorial national, excluding public editions and self-publishing.
The first 10 writers, ordered chronologically, were Salvador García Aguilar, Elías Meana, Lola López Mondéjar, Paco López Mengual, Pablo de Aguilar González, Manuel Moyano, Rubén Castillo Gallego, Jerónimo Tristante, Marta Zafrilla and Lorena Moreno.
This list was born with the vocation to be expanded, given the constant evolution of the literary phenomenon in Molina de Segura.
For this reason, on March 25, 2019, it was agreed at the ordinary session of the Municipal Plenary to extend the Paseo de las Letras with six new writers who fulfilled the above requirements and who are, in chronological order, the following:
- Vicente García Hernández (Molina de Segura, 1935).
Poet and narrator, he was ordained as a priest in 1957. In 1963, he won the Polo de Medina prize with God, and in 1965 he won the second prize of one of the most prestigious national poetry prizes, the Adonais, with his poems Los pájaros.
In 1975 he won the Diputación de Murcia prize with his novel Los vidrios rotos and in 1978 the Andrés Baquero de Teatro prize with his work Las arañas.
- Francisco Javier Illán Vivas (Molina de Segura, 1958).
Poet and regular contributor to the press, founder of the literary magazine Cliffs of Paper, is the author of the epic fantasy saga The Wrath of Nébulos.
He has published books such as La isla y otros relatos (Irreverent Editions), Poisoned Verses (finalist of the VII Wilkie Collins Award) and 1314, revenge of the Templar (second prize of the VI Alexandre Dumas Prize of historical novel), these last two published in MAR Editor .
- Antonio J. Ruiz Munuera (Lorca, 1966) is a professor of Secondary Education in Lorquí and has lived in Molina de Segura for 19 years.
Climber and amateur photographer, has a literary biography punctuated with awards.
With La luz de Yosemite he was a finalist for the 2014 Desnivel Prize and the Setenil 2015 Prize. Ojo de pez won the XX Nostromo Novel Prize in Barcelona in 2016. With the anger of the insect he won the Cantabrian Novel Prize in 2018.
- Javier Martínez (Molina de Segura, 1971) has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Granada, and MFA in Film and Television from the University of California.
As an animator, he has obtained the Student Academy Award from the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, considered a kind of youthful Oscar.
Director and scriptwriter of animation series, as a writer he has published the juvenile trilogy Mina San Telmo in Edebé, as well as La casa de Celia, in the same publishing house.
- García de Saura is the artistic name of Carmen María García (born in Molina de Segura).
Graduated as a Technical Specialist in Administration and also a painter, most of her novels have appeared in the Editorial Planeta, including What the alcohol has joined that does not separate the hangover, Houston we have more than one problem and Dreaming big, thinking to the "boy", the latter in co-authorship with Alissa Brontë.
- José Antonio Jiménez-Barbero (Barcelona, ​​1975), resides in Molina de Segura since 2013. After several years as a police officer in Molina, and later as a specialist mental health nurse, he is a professor at the University of Murcia, where he directs several lines of research related to "bullying" and violence among adolescents.
His works of fiction address this youth problem: The boy who did not want to cry (Tregolam editorial), Confessions of a teenage psychopath, The face of madness, Do not look back or The travels of Ariadna (Adaliz Ediciones).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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