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The 10 plaques dedicated to so many writers of the locality containing at graphic motif, a meteorite, in memory of the fallen in 1858
The opening ceremony of the Paseo de las Letras de Molina de Segura will take place Monday, March 28, at 19.00 pm in the Park of the Company.
Attending the Mayor of the town, Eduardo Contreras Linares, and the Councillor of Culture, Mariola Martinez Robles.
The event will start the program of activities for the Spring 2011 Book of the resort, promoted by the Department of Culture of the City molinense.
El Paseo de las Letras is located in the Park Company, next to City Hall, with 10 plaques dedicated to so many writers born or residing in Molina de Segura.
As the Hollywood Walk of Fame, this new boulevard echoes the literary boom that is experiencing the city.
The graphic motif of the plates will not be a star, but a meteorite, as a curious legend relates this confluence of writers who fall on Molina de Segura, in 1858, the largest meteorite ever recorded in Spain.
In recent years, Molina de Segura has become a hotbed of cultural activity, with particular emphasis on literary activity.
On the one hand, thanks to the events organized from the Department of Culture of the City, such as Setenil Award, Writers cycle in Ink, Paper Spring or publishing their own titles.
On the other hand, thanks to the surprising appearance in a short time of numerous writers born or residing in the city who publish national editorials.
On this initiative, we have also created a group on facebook and a blog (http://autoresdelmeteorito.blogspot.com/).
The list of the 10 writers included in this first set of plates has been chosen taking into account that those born or resident in Molina de Segura and who have published at least one work of fiction, as sole author, in a national editorial , excluding public issues and desktop publishing.
In any case, it is an open list, which will expand over the years.
The 10 writers are sorted chronologically, Salvador García Aguilar, Elias Meana, Mondéjar Lola López, Paco Lopez Mengual, Pablo de Aguilar González, Manuel Moya, Ruben Castillo Gallego, Jerome Tristant, Zafrilla and Lorena Marta Moreno.
Salvador García Aguilar (Rojales, 1924 / Molina de Segura, 2005) won the Nadal Prize in 1983 for his novel Joy in man, set in the time of the Vikings.
He later published novels as Cajina Granada (1990), set in the thirteenth century Murcia or silence Cry (1990), which returns to classical antiquity.
Molina de Segura, called Diosondo in fiction, was the scene of his latest book, the monumental trilogy novel The time we live (2003).
Elijah Meana (Salamanca, 1946) is an officer in the merchant marine and in 1983 participated as a crew member on the 1 st Spanish Expedition to Antarctica.
From 1986 to 1992, he joined the technical team that built and maintained the Antarctic Base Juan Carlos I.
In 1998 he won the prize with his novel Nostromo the beautiful Maria (Youth Ed).
Since then he has published three novels Noray maritime narrative and a juvenile series set in Antarctica and the blue stars.
Lola López Mondéjar (Molina de Segura, 1958) is a psychoanalyst and has published novels like A House in Havana (1997), I was born with the bossa nova (Murciano Book of the Year 2000), modern languages ​​(2009) and My Love unfortunate ( Ed Siruela 2010, International Prize for Fiction Gonzalo Torrente Ballester 2009).
She is also author of the story book thinking dumb fish (Ed. Pages Foam, 2008), and test, Psychoanalysis and creativity: Factor Munchausen (2009).
Paco López Mengual (Molina de Segura, 1962) mercer and novelist, and though not begin writing until age 40, has already published three novels where fantasy and reality are intertwined, and where civil war and its aftermath have role: The memory of the mud (2005), The map of a crime (Ed. Maeva, 2009, translated to Portuguese) and The Last Boat to America (Ed. Temas de Hoy, 2011).
He is also author of the slim volume of short stories The House of the mutants (2008).
Pablo de Aguilar González (Albacete, 1963), Molina de Segura resident since 2000, was shortlisted for the Prize II Read 2009 Volkswagen Intersections with the novel (published in 2010 by Ed Inéditor).
In 2010 he won the Third Prize Volkswagen Read the novel The pelicans are the North, published by MC, with a circulation of nearly 100,000 venal no copies, and be led by a multifóbico who travels the United States via Interstate 35 .
Manuel Moyano (Cordoba, 1963), Molina de Segura resident since 1991, has published books of stories Kafka's friend (Ed. Pre Texts, Premio Tigre Juan 2002), Celestial Gold (2003) and Wolberg Experiment (Nobel Murciano Book of the Year 2008) and the novel The Devil's alibi (Fantasy Novel Award Tristana 2006).
His stories have appeared in numerous anthologies.
He is also author of titles such as Magic Diary, Gallery of stateless persons and the wolf Periago.
Ruben Castillo Gallego (White, 1966) is professor of Spanish literature and has won, among others, the Gabriel Awards Sijé and Ateneo de Valladolid.
Author of ten books including the collection includes stories of the Bible prohibited Images (1997), novels The woman in the rocking chair (1992) and cracks of hell (2002), and the slim volume of stories Hegel tram (2008).
His latest book is the young adult novel The Cave of the prophecies (Edimáter, 2010).
Jerome Tristant (Murcia, 1969) is professor of biology and resides in Molina de Segura for seven years.
He has published seven novels, including Jufré Chronicle (2001), Red in Blue (2004), and the trilogy starring the detective Victor Ros: The mystery of the house Aranda (2008), The Black Widow ( 2008) and The Enigma of the street Calabria (2010), all in Maeva.
His latest works are The Treasure of the Nazarite (Ed. Roca, 2009) and 1969 (Ed. Maeva, 2009).
It has been translated into French, Italian and Polish.
Marta Zafrilla (Murcia, 1982), BA in Advertising and Public Relations, based in Molina de Segura for four years, has published books of poetry sustained Takes (2005), Wreck (2005) and The Silence of the clocks (Creajoven Award 2005).
With his novel message encryption (Ed. SM, 2007) won the International Novel Wide Youth 2007, one of the best equipped of its kind worldwide.
Lorena Moreno (Molina de Segura, 1992) wrote his first novel 16 years starting from a newspaper article that talked about slavery in a fishing village in Ghana, and she moved to Bali.
With this novel, hell Networks (Ed. SM, 2010), won the Prize V Sierra i Fabra for young writers, whose jury described the work as "very mature and high doses of realism."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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