Casa África publishes "Purorrelato"

Casa África has just released a digital book with the texts of the contest winners of Purorrelato, a literary contest organised by the institution for the first time this year and won by María del Mar Horno García from Gijon with text called El Viajero. The book includes the three winning entries in a collection of the best 50 micro-stories that were submitted to the competition. It also has micro-texts of African and Spanish guest writers. Boubacar Boris Diop, Berbel, Patrice Nganang, Cristina R. Court, Justo Bolekia and Ángeles Jurado.

Purorrelato, was created in order to promote literary creation to encourage us to feel and think about Africa and show its different realities, always from the perspective of bringing us nearer to the continent and far away from stereotypes and clichés. The invitation to the competition started on 1st April and ended on 1st July. Writers like Antonio Lozano and Eduvigis Hernández and specialists in African literature such as  Manuel Serrat and Johari Gautier Carmona took part in the jury. Casa África this time received more than 800 micro-texts in Spanish, French and Portuguese, from the four corners of the planet and written in countries like the Arab Emirates, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Kenya, South Africa, Ivory Coast and Senegal.

The first prize went to Maria del Mar Horno García, the second to Isidro Catela Marcos from Salamanca who lives in Madrid, with La vida verde de los elefantes, and the third, to the Colombian Santiago Trujillo Velasquez and the micro-text entitled Revelación.

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