EDEBÉ CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE AWARDS 21st edition, 2013 DAVID CIRICI and PILAR MOLINA LLORENTE, DAVID CIRICI & PILAR MOLINA LLORENTE WINNERS OF THE st 21 EDITION OF EDEBE LITERATURE AWARDS David Cirici (Barcelona, 1954) with a novel originally written in Catalan entitled Musgo (Moss, in English) and Pilar Molina (Madrid, 1943) with Tesa, are the winners of the 21st edition of the EDEBE Literature Awards. Two stories, really different between them, that will surprise the readers thanks to their characters and settings. David Cirici invites the reader to follow Moss, a dog who looks for the trail of happiness left by Janinka, the girl who used to play with him and who lived in his house right before the war. A story about lost, hope and the struggle for survival that the reader will be able to “feel” through the smell and the candid perception of a Dog. Pilar Molina was awarded with the EDEBE Young Adult’s Literature Award thanks to an urban story about parallels worlds. Tesa, the main character, has moved temporally to a flat in the centre of Madrid where her grandma and great-grandma live: a mysterious space of high ceilings, long corridors, closed and secret rooms. The first night, she already hears strange noises that frighten her and warn her that something mysterious is hidden in that flat. 21st EDITION OF EDEBE CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE AWARDS On its 21st edition of EDEBE Awards, worth 30.000€ for Young Adult’s Literature Category and 25.000€ for Children’s Literature Category, 450 works written by authors from Spain and Latin America applied for this award. The high rate of applicants confirms the importance of EDEBÉ Literature Awards. It’s inevitable not to mention previous EDEBE Award winners as Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Gabriel Janer Manila, Maite Carranza or Elia Barceló, among others who obtained this award at the very beginning of their literary career. Cesar Mallorquí with La isla de Bowen and Fernando Lalana with Parque Muerte were awarded on its last edition. La isla de Bowen (rights sold to Korea, France and Brazil) by Cesar Mallorquí was considered the Spanish best young adult novel published during 2012, (EL PAIS)and Maite Carranza's Palabras envenenadas winner of 2011 edebe Y-A award, obtained non less than the Spanish National Prize for Young Adult Literature (Rights sold to 7 countries). Children’s category: MUSGO, by David Cirici JURY & AUTHOR WORDS The jury has unanimously decided to select “Musgo” as the XXI Edebé Children’s Literature Award Winner because of its originality and its ability to move the reader since the story is presented through a lost dog’s perception, with his ability to track life and memories with his sense of smell. The author defines his work as “the story of a loss, full of tension, with happiness and sadness, with a surprising ending”. The book, addressed to children from 10 years old will be published in Spanish in March 2013 with a first print run of 6.000 copies. SUMMARY: Musgo is a dog that loves riding in the bicycle basket seeing trees and clouds crossing. He also loves following his shadow between the hanging sheets and blankets, running behind children or nibble Janinka’s bicycle pedal. He is a happy in-home dog until war separates him brutally from Janinka and Mirek, the two kids that live with him at home and who tickle his belly with his barefoot feet. A bomb erases everything Musgo knows and leaves the dog without home or family. Surviving in a city in ruins, Musgo discovers things that he doesn’t like, for example, his guts grinding, be covered with fleas and mites or nobody calling him his name. However, although the sad smell of war, Musgo will never give up on his search of the slight spicy smell of his beloved and missed Janinka. In a context that nobody can understand, Musgo will have to learn to be a street dog, a wild dog, a watchful dog and even a circus dog. The path will not be easy but Musgo will overcome the challenge until his sense of smell takes him back to the one he loves. Young Adult’s category: TESA, by Pilar Molina Llorente JURY & AUTHOR WORDS The jury has decided to select “Tesa” because of the powerful setting that the author recreates two parallel worlds and because of the manuscript’s high quality language and words. The author defines her work as a “home story where the main character will live extraordinary adventure: there’s no need to travel to exotic or dangerous places to live a great experience” Tesa will be published in March 2003 with a first print run of 7.000 copies. SUMMARY: Tesa, her grandma and great grandma move to an old big flat. Every night, while she is in his auntie Dely’s room, Tesa wakes up shaken up because of strange and scary noises in the hundred-year flat. When everything is silent, it seems that the old flat comes to life and stretches itself making crackle the beams, furniture and antiques that her grandma and great grandma love. But it’s not the noises that call Tesa’s attention but the strange appearance of a character with red eyes standing at the foot of her bed. Tesa will have plenty of things to discover behind hidden doors, closed balconies and, above all, the mysterious office of his great grandfather where nobody has entered in since Tesa’s father was a child. A secret that will break the barriers of family’s mysteries and will take the characters, literally, to other dimension DAVID CIRICI David Cirici (Barcelona, 1954) was a language and literature teacher, radio and TV scriptwriter and currently, he is an advertising agent: all his professions have been related to writing stories. He has published several young adult and adult fiction books and has received several awards for example, the Premi Ramon Muntaner de literatura juvenil (Young Adult Literature Award Ramón Muntaner), the Marià Vayreda Award or the 23 d’Abril Award. In 2011 he was awarded with Prudenci Bertrana award. http://davidcirici.blogspot.com.es/ PILAR MOLINA LLORENTE Pilar Molina Llorente (Madrid, 1943) is graduated in Fine Arts but also studied music, philology and psychology. She has translated several works for children and young adult and has been awarded with several awards. She is internationally well-known since her work “El aprendiz” (15 editions in Spain) was translated in more than 10 languages: (The Apprentice, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, US) (Le petit peintre de Florence, published by Hachette Jeuneusse (France), (Das Geheimnis des Meister Cosimo published by Arena Verlag (Germany) just to name a few of international editions) and she won the American Library Association Notable Children's Books, Mildred L. Batchelder Award. Pilar Molina Llorente is the sole Spanish author who has won this prestigious award that reckons the most outstanding children’s book originally published in a language other than English and subsequently translated into English for publication in the United States. EDEBÉ Literature Award Children’s Category Winners 1993 - Acuérdate de los dinosaurios, Ana María – Gabriel Janer Manila 1994 - Aydin – Jordi Sierra i Fabra 1995 - Doctor Rus – Gloria Sánchez 1996 - El estanque de los patos pobres – Fina Casalderrey 1997 - Gata García – Pilar Mateos 1998 - Un caracol para Emma – Albert Roca 1999 - Jon y la máquina del miedo – Roberto Santiago 2000 - El camino del faro – Miquel Rayó 2001 - Declarado desierto 2002 - ¿Quieres ser el novio de mi hermana? – Maite Carranza 2003 - Korazón de Pararrayos – Andreu Sotorra 2004 - Mi abuelo el Presunto – Paloma Bordons 2005 - La escuela de piratas – Agustín Fernández Paz 2006 – Rosanda y el arte de birli birloque – Ángeles González-Sinde 2007 – Los perfectos – Rodrigo Muñoz Avia 2008 – ¡No es tan fácil ser niño! – Pilar Lozano 2009 – Sopa de cola de lagartija – Marta Gené Camps 2010 – Mi hermano el genio – Rodrigo Muñoz Avia 2011 – En busca del tesoro de Kola – Edna López 2012 – Parque Muerte – Fernando Lalana Complete reviews and information of every title at your disposal. EDEBÉ Literature Award Young Adult’s Category Winners 1993 – El Príncipe de la Niebla – Carlos Ruiz Zafón 1994 – Trece años de Blanca – Agustín Fernández Paz 1995 – La Voz de Madrugada – Joan Manuel Gisbert 1996 – El diccionario de Carola – Carmen Gómez Ojea 1997 – El último trabajo del señor Luna – César Mallorquí 1998 – El caso del artista cruel – Elia Barceló 1999 – La cruz de El Dorado – César Mallorquí 2000 – Mimí al volante – Milio Rodríguez Cueto 2001 – La oveja negra – Pasqual Alapont 2002 – Las lágrimas de Shiva – César Mallorquí 2003 – Laluna.com – Care Santos 2004 – La tripulación del pánico – Pau Joan Hernández 2005 – Los dueños del paraíso – Andreu Martín 2006 – Llamando a las puertas del cielo – Jordi Sierra i Fabra 2007 – Cordeluna – Elia Barceló 2008 – Huida al Sur – Juan Madrid 2009 – Muerte a seis veinticinco – Jordi Cervera 2010 – Palabras envenenadas – Maite Carranza (Spanish National Prize for Children & Young Adult Literature 2011) 2011 – El espíritu del último verano – Susana Vallejo 2012 – La isla de Bowen – César Mallorquí (Best Young Adult Novel 2012 according to EL PAIS) Complete reviews and information of every title at your disposal.
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