edition of edebe literature awards

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
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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)
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