Pedro Calatrava Labandeira debuted as the winner of its first edition Mediterranean Foundation Novel Award with his work blue manA story starring a retired man who finds meaning in his life while facing many adventures, this story will be published as a first edition by the Pre-Textos publishing house. 800 copies. The author of A Coruña himself 933 works received originals 33 countries.
The jury’s decision regarding this new award, 20,000 euros It was put together by the Mediterráneo Foundation and the University of Murcia and was made public this Wednesday at an event attended by its president at the Murcia headquarters of the Mediterráneo Foundation. Louis Boyer, Rector of the University of Murcia, José LujanAnd Francisco Fluoritejury president.
Florit was accompanied by RAE academics and authors, author Vicente Molina Foix, on this evaluation mission. Soledad Puertolas And Clara Sanchez And Silvia PratdesabaPre-Textos publishing house stated in the decision minutes that “the author’s has the capacity to create a very good novel It is a film about the personal development of a middle-aged man, who goes through various adventures and finds his meaning in life after retirement. One “The novel of formation in the Middle Ages”.
The President told blue man “It’s a well-read, entertaining novel, and above all, what caught our attention the most is the nature of the main character: A retiree captured by a secret society fighting with very unorthodox methods against all kinds of criminals. “This fight gives meaning to his life.”
award-winning
award-winning Peter Calatrava He said the following in his statement via video conference after learning of the decision: “Winning the award was shocking”. “I showed up like someone buying a lottery ticket thinking I wouldn’t win. To my surprise, I got the call and it gave me tremendous excitement that I’m still trying to digest,” he said.
“I am a newcomer with my first novel”Kazanan said, “Although I have always written since my childhood. I started countless novels, but this was the first novel I finished. I suddenly realized that life is not eternal and I said to myself.” ‘Either you wake up or there is no novel.’ And it finally came about through work and work and work.”
In response to Soledad Puértolas’ question about the creative process, Calatrava replied that in his case “it’s not so much writing, It was hard to delete: If I wrote a hundred words, I deleted five hundred and rewrote a thousand. “I lived through that time too, and I experienced that pause that age gives you.”
Born in Madrid in 1958Pedro Calatrava moved to La Coruña in 1965 and has resided there ever since. I study Medicine, Psychology and Law. Working life has developed in the chemical industry. Some unpublished and unexhibited stories and short stories in the creative section; occasional collaborations of text and comics in blogs and publications of various scopes.
Novel
The novel tells your storyn recently retired insurance agent A person who receives a job offer from his former boss. The mission is simple: You must track down policyholders making claims against their insurance companies to discover those trying to defraud them. But on one of these missions his whole world will change because, among other things, he will discover: Unknown facts from his family’s past.
Moreover, this mission will lead him to life. an adventureIt turns out that he never intended to make it happen and even though he didn’t know it, he was more than prepared. The monotonous, lonely and dull life of the hero will be seen. radically transformed with the intervention of a number of characters, almost all of them are grouped under the name. A secret society called the Blue Man. It is a society of men and women who fight against all forms of abuse, arrogance, corruption and evil in the world, although it is true that their methods are not exactly orthodox.
Bet
Mediterranean Foundation President Luis Boyer stated that “Literature is a part of the Foundation’s DNA.” our three literary awardsOur Azorín de Monóvar House Museum or The legacy of Azorín, Carlos Arniches and Gabriel Miró, among othersConsidering that the thousand originals received for the call “are credited with outstanding international status”, Boyer added that with this new award, “The Foundation wants to be a meeting point, a support for reflection and growth, creativity and new talents”. in the first edition of this award”.
The countries that contributed the most works are: Spain (568), Argentina (148) and Mexican (41) followed by Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Peru, USA, Cuba, France, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil, Canada, Dominican Republic, Israel, Uruguay, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden It does. , United Kingdom, Andorra, Austria, China, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand and Norway. It should be noted that the originals came. from 17 autonomous communities from Spain.
Among the age groups, the most participatory ones were writers. 46 to 60 years old (400 novels), those over the age of 60 (318), and 151 novels correspond to the age range of 36-45.