First Winners of the Granada UNESCO City of Literature Prizes for Young Writers
The Arts Department of the Granada City Council (through the Granada UNESCO City of Literature Office) and the Education Department of the Granada City Council launched the Granada UNESCO City of Literature Prizes for Young Writers, aimed at 3rd and 4th year ESO students and the two High School courses. This Prize is created with the objectives, among others, of promoting literary creation among young people and adolescents in Granada; help create a stable future fabric of people who are fond of literature; consolidate Granada’s position as the cultural capital of Southern Europe; generate contact between our authors and the young people of the city, bring these young people closer to the figure of Federico García Lorca and the Centro Federico García Lorca as a cultural space.
Next Saturday, May 6, 2023, the winners of each modality will attend a writing workshop at the Centro Federico García Lorca and, after the workshops, Guillermo Busutil will give a master class for all the winners.
Winners of the High School modality
Andrea García Abello – San Juan Bosco Salesianos
Pablo Ruiz Rodríguez – IES Zafra
Natalia Martín Requena – IES Albaicín
Candela Guarnido Peralta – Maristas La Inmaculada
Adrián Ruiz Sánchez – IES La Madraza
Irene Martín Simón – La Presentación de Nuestra Señora
Diego Molina Granados – IES Pedro Soto de Rojas
Sandra Palomar Castaño – IES Severo Ochoa
Laura Rojo García-Garnica – La Presentación de Nuestra Señora
Laura Jiménez Padilla – IES Severo Ochoa
Óscar Castro Andreu – IES Severo Ochoa
Justo Sánchez Blancas – IES Padre Manjón
Jaime Caballero Cruz – IES Severo Ochoa
Elvira López Toledo – IES Severo Ochoa
María Eleuterio Caballero – Colegio Inmaculada Niña
Rodrigo Bonachera del Pozo – Colegio Inmaculada Niña
Alejandro Pedregosa, teacher of the High School modality writing workshop.
Centro Federico García Lorca. Sala Talleres. From 10 am to 12 noon.
Winners of the ESO modality
Adrián López Perea – Colegio Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes
Lourdes León Cazorla – Colegio Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes
Saúl Velázquez Simón – IES Juan XXIII Cartuja
Paula Jorge Martínez – La Presentación de Nuestra Señora
David Morales Arellano – IES Federico García Lorca
José Miguel López Prieto – IES Juan XXIII Cartuja
Amina Arfaoui El Haouhay – IES Juan XXIII Cartuja
Helena Álvarez Pérez-Padilla – IES Juan XXIII Cartuja
Mara Mirón Cortés – Colegio Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes
Cristina Gálvez, teacher of the ESO modality writing workshop.
Centro Federico García Lorca. Sala Talleres. From 10 am to 12 noon.
12:30 h – Master class for all the winners with Guillermo Busutil
Guillermo Busutil (Granada, 1961) is a writer and journalist. Opinion columnist and literary critic for La Opinión de Málaga, he also collaborates as an art critic in La Vanguardia, in the newspaper El País and in Crónica Global. From 2007 to 2019 he was director of the Mercurio magazine, of the José Manuel Lara Foundation (2010 Reading Promotion Award from the Andalusian Center for Letters). He is a member of the Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona, and professor of the Master’s Degree in Literary Creation at the University of Valencia. In 2012 he was awarded the Andalusia Critics Award for his book Vidas Prometidas (Tropo, 2011), a finalist for the Setenil Award for the best short story book of 2011. He has also won the Francisco Valdés National Journalism Award; the Unicaja Award for journalistic articles and the Jerez Perchet Journalism Award. His latest books include La cultura, querido Robinson (2019), Noticias del frente (2014), Moleskine (2008), Nada sabe tan bien como la boca del verano (2005) and Drugstore (2003). He has also written numerous critical texts in exhibition catalogs on artists such as Manuel Rivera, Juan Genovés, Frank Rebaxes, Enrique Brinkmann, Juan Vida and Mati Moreno, among others. In 2017, the Malaga Press Association awarded him the Medal of Honor for Journalism for his career and the Ateneo de Málaga the Gold Medal for Culture. In 2021, he received the National Prize for Cultural Journalism.
